Rod, at 19:32 on Jan 29 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

FM> Ah, yes. I was rather hoping to not need partitions.

BG> Beware the cluster size on a non-partitioned 2Gb HD though.  It makes a
BG> lot of sense to divide it up into 256Mb or 512Mb partitions if you can.

RS> Its a problem. The more you have, and 256MB partitions are
RS> a lot of drives with a 2MB drive, the more free space is
RS> scattered and its not easy to keep track of where things age.

Yep, no argument with that at all.  It's also why my 2 large partitons are
HPFS, although I still need FAT for DOS/Windows, but I've restricted that
one to 250Mb, in order to enjoy the smaller clusters.

BG> I've actually forgotten now if a non-partitoned 2Gb drive will
BG> boot, even with LBA support in BIOS.  Rod will know for sure.

RS> Yes, if you have LBA support in the motherboard bios, you can
RS> boot a single partition which exceeds the 528MB limit fine.

Thought so, although I still think it makes more sense to have a specific
system-only partition for the larger, more complex OSs, like Win NT, Win95,
or OS/2.  It makes reinstalling or upgrading a hell of a lot easier IMO.

Regards, Bill

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