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from: Ray Davison
date: 2004-09-28 00:33:06
subject: Re: OT: Why isn`t PC-DOS seeing my partitions?

Davey Brain wrote:
> 
> Now to DOS this is a huge hard drive and I expected to only use 5G for 
> DOS (I still love those old games and they still play best in real DOS). 
> Why isn't DOS seeing these partitions? Is there some new super-extended 
> partition for logicals on a big hard drive that won't let DOS see the 
> extended partition? Can I get around this?

I have a similar layout.  I have drives up to 160G.  I run DRDOS with 
native FAT32 support.  I have no trouble using any FAT16 under 1024; 
which as far as I know is as far as it can go.  I just wrote to a 
FAT32 partition that is 30G.

Don't give up.

Ray


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