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From: hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: #### Dos Upgrade... Possible w/HD? #######  <neeeed to know :->
Summary: Can I replace it w/out backing up?... what are the better capabilities
Message-ID: <11987@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 22 Sep 89 22:25:49 GMT
Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Hassell)
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     My system is running DOS 2.1 and Disk Manager and I want to upgrade the 
DOS. I have a couple of questions.

     Can I just replace the system files. Does Disk Manager do something to 
the drive that makes the format incompatible with plane old DOS? Is DOS cap-
able of having partitions larger than say... 40 meg? Can I avoid having to 
backup my hard drive? I want to get rid of disk manager because I have found 
some incompatibilities with some of my programs but still want to access the 
whole hard drive as one drive. 


Thank ya kindly (this is actually for a friend... but reply here)
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