Hello! I have a question regarding Windows for workgroups 3.11s harddrive support. How large drives does it support? Or maybe the question should be: how large drives does Dos 6.22 support? Is there a way to make it support larger drives? Like installing a newer version of dos (dos 7.10?), or makeing partitions? Would be glad for any replies. Thank you! P.S The reason i ask this is because i need to replace my harddrive in my old 486 and the smalles drive i've come across is about 4gb large. The original one was 220mb. D.S

MSDOS/W3.x support install on C: drive FAT16 (2gb maximum partitions size). The size of hard drive is a limitation of the BIOS (CMOS) not the O/S, you can use drive overlay software: http://83.67.55.228/vfat.htm DO NOT BAN THE MESSENGER

DOS6xx has the (well known) FAT16 partition limitation of about 2Gb - although on a 486 you may encounter a BIOS limit of about 500Mb. There are workarounds, such as employing a drive overlay. Win3x can be made to work with FAT32 DOS (7.1) if you use the 3xstart patch Braccae tuae aperiuntur

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If the BIOS supports a larger drive, you can have more partitions. D-Z at 2 GB would use an additional 46 GB. If you are willing to test put another drive and see how much can be assigned. You may have to use the user defined settings. There is a BIOS card that will go up to 32GB (was made to increase the old 8GB limit). Although it is a waste you don't have to use all the drive space. Of course the easiest solution is to get a new(er) computer. I don't know about your neighborhood but I found a P66 with 3 GB HD and 16 MB ram in the neighborhood trash last week. The fastest discard I got was a Celeron 667 with a 20GB HD and 192MB ram and CD writer.