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OS/2 2gb partition limit
Name: Billy Roberts Date: October 8, 2003 at 08:14:36 Pacific OS: OS/2 Warp 3 CPU/Ram: P3 850 128mb ram
Comment:
My company still uses OS/2 Warp 3 for our OS, but we have problems with formatting anything bigger than a 2gb partition. Any ideas why it won't do anything bigger?
Name: Billy Roberts Date: October 8, 2003 at 10:20:16 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks, but will that get me past the 2GB partition limit...or just allow me to use a drive larger than 2GB?
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Response Number 3
Name: egal2 Date: October 10, 2003 at 14:34:21 Pacific
Reply:
Of course. I run Warp3 on a system with a 9GB and a 18GB Harddisk. I used the updated boot disks (http://www.warpdoctor.org/downloads.html) and installed the latest service pack. I can use the complete disc space with HPFS file system.
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