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best dos for large disk support
Name: kingsxwc Date: December 26, 2003 at 11:35:34 Pacific OS: WFW 3.1 CPU/Ram: 120Mhz 486DX4/ 40 megs ra
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I run a web server using EZ-NOS on a 486. I've got a 4G HD installed and partitioned into 3 drives. My problem is I'm running out of disk space. EZ-NOS only serves up one disk at a time and since I'm running dos 6.22, that limits me to 2 G's at a time. What is the best DOS to install that has large HD support that will also run WFW 3.11 with Office 4? I've read many posts and it succeeded in totally confusing me. Dos 7.1, DrDos 7.03, win3xstart, wfw not compatible, wfw is compatible, etc., etc., etc. Could someone help me out a bit. Thanks.
Name: Wengier Date: December 26, 2003 at 14:56:50 Pacific
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MS-DOS 7.1 or DR-DOS 7.03 is fully compatible with WFW 3.11 with the correct configuration in CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT. Especially MS-DOS 7.10, which has native support for large hard disks (at least up to 2048GB in size). More information is available from:
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