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os/2 partition size.
Name: Ketul shah Date: April 29, 2002 at 18:31:16 Pacific
Comment:
hello all i am having problem, partitioning drive, between os/2 and winnt. i have 40gb hard drive but it will only allow me to do 8.4gb for os/2 partition, i have downloaded all the fixpacks from the ibm website and run through all the work but i still can't figure out what i need to do to increase the drive size. KETUL SHAH.
Name: Armin Date: April 30, 2002 at 00:42:30 Pacific
Reply:
Ketul, as you have found out OS/2 will not boot from a partition that does not reside inside the infamous 1024-cylinder-limit. So your best approach will be to split the 40GB drive into a small boot partition and a large data partition.
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Response Number 2
Name: peter Date: April 30, 2002 at 13:03:57 Pacific
Reply:
Yup, found that problem myself earlier last year. I posted it here, look further down in the OS/2 section
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