Posted by Mutt on 27, 2000 at 12:32 PM:
In Reply to: DOS partitioning posted by MameBox on 27, 2000 at 11:34 AM:
FAT16 is limited to 2Gig period.
FAT32 you can go higher, have a 20 gig drive with 15 gig extended with 3 5 gig drives inside it. But FAT32 is only available from WIN 9X, might be utilities ya can run to see fat32 drives. I know one existed for win nt.
: I am in the finishing stage of building my cabinet from scratch. As soon as it is finished I will put up a Web page with some pictures.
: To put inside the cabinet I have purchased a new computer (very much the same parts as Saint). My 20 GB HD from IBM is partitioned as follows:
: - Primary partition that holds OS2 bootmanager
: - Primary partition that holds DOS 6.22 (2GB)
: - Primary partition that holds Win95 (2GB)
: - Extended partition for the rest of the HD
: - The extended partition is divided into several 2GB logical drives
: When selecting DOS from the bootmanager, the primary partition that holds WIN95 becomes invisible and vice versa.
: The problem is that DOS only recognises the C-drive (DOS), D-drive (logical drive) and E-drive (logical drive). The rest of the logical drives are not accessible.
: I know of the limit of 2GB pr. partition and I am below that. The partitions are also formatted as FAT16 and in my autoexec.bat I have the LASTDRIVE=Z.
: Are there also a limit in size for the Extended partition???
: How have you partitioned your HD?
: TIA