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Expend DOS 6.22 Drive size limit
Name: guyver Date: December 8, 2004 at 17:17:47 Pacific OS: Dos 6.22 CPU/Ram: Pentium4/512MB
Comment:
Anyway to expend DOs usable drive size beyond 2 gig ?
Name: jboy Date: December 8, 2004 at 17:41:07 Pacific
Reply:
No
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Response Number 2
Name: JackG Date: December 8, 2004 at 20:54:19 Pacific
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But, with a "minor" re-write of DOS to handle 65K cluster sizes, and a "minor" change in the DOS interface spec's to allow 65K cluster sizes, (and a major rewrite of a lot of old DOS applications and utilities) it could be modified to handle a 4GB partition. Hardly worth all the effort, even back then.
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Response Number 3
Name: wizard-fred Date: December 8, 2004 at 23:44:51 Pacific
Reply:
You can have 24 2GB partitions C to Z. As long as the BIOS recognizes the hard drive you can probably use up to a 40 GB drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: December 9, 2004 at 09:36:57 Pacific
Reply:
... still sounds like 'no' to me ; )
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Response Number 5
Name: neotms88 Date: December 11, 2004 at 10:36:29 Pacific
Reply:
No, but heres a thought, upgrade to dos 7.10 and use fat32 (2Tb limit). Yopu need to fdisk and format with a win95 OSR2/ win98 boot disk though, DOS 7.10 doesn't have these utils. on the boot disk.
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Response Number 6
Name: jboy Date: December 12, 2004 at 13:23:00 Pacific
Reply:
Sure it does - msdos71b.zip. I guess you're not really familiar with the site that you've been promoting in all of your posts.
Anyone can setup a basic DOS71 installation from a 9x system - the advantage of the package from your adopted site is the comprehensive setup and LFN support.
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Response Number 7
Name: neotms88 Date: December 12, 2004 at 17:32:04 Pacific
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I prompte it because of the setup and LFN (also the included MEMMAKER, and DOSSHELL), I knew you colud set it up from a win 95b/98 CD.
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Response Number 8
Name: dominicus Date: December 15, 2004 at 20:15:48 Pacific
Reply:
Dos maybe not, but here's an interesting bit of trivia..i formatted my e drive in NT4 as fat 16 (i'd forgotten it was a 6 gig partition) and it formatted it as a 6 gig fat16 partition...really...it's 3/4 full now and haven't had any probs yet..course that's NT4, not dos...
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Response Number 9
Name: dominicus Date: December 15, 2004 at 20:17:52 Pacific
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P.S. i don't dare guess as to the cluster sizes of the remaining free space! :)
Summary: On a Clean Formated Hard Drive. Install MS-DOS 6.22 First Now Install Windows 95 or 98 Install TweakUI Click on 'Boot' Section Select 'Always show Boot Menu' Select time limit (Default = 30 secs) If ...
Summary: DOS 6.22 utilizes the 16-bit version of the FAT. Regardless of how you partition the drive, once DOS 6.22 is loaded into memory, only 2GB of the drive will be available. It's not really that DOS can't...
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