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From: lord@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Windows 3.0 destroying data on >32 meg disk
Message-ID: <3450@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 2 Jul 90 21:26:03 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego
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The following is from a recent INFORMATIONWEEK.
In the 'Top of the Week' section there is an article called 'Crack in
Windows'. Quoted without permission:


   Many users have confirmed that Windows 3.0 corrupts hard disks larger
   than 32 Mbytes that have not been formatted with DOS 4.01 or higher,
   Dalton says.  Until the release of MS-DOS 4.01, users with large hard
   disks had to look beyond Microsoft because DOS could not create
   partitions larger than 32 Mbytes. 

   <A lot of other stuff follows, mostly blasting Microsoft for knowing
   about this problem and not warning people.>


My question is do they really mean PARTITIONS bigger than 32Meg?
I have a 60 Meg disk Initialized under DOS 3.3 as two partitions,
will I have a problem? Also, another system I use has both Interactive Unix
and DOS. The only way to create the DOS partition is with Unix (Although
I could perhaps delete it and recreate it with DOS). Does anyone know the
real story?