Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sjsca4!poffen
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: help - windows and disk manager problem ??
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.165825.11990@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:58:25 GMT
References: <12787@encore.Encore.COM> <18950036@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <18950036@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>> 
>> On my machine (generic 386-20), Win3 locks up at the title screen if I
>> try to run enhanced mode.  It runs standard and real just fine.  I have
>> traced the problem to DMDRVR.BIN (Disk manager).  I would be VERY interested
>>
>Sounds like you're real lucky that your disk is still working. It is
>a known problem that Windows 3.0 used with Disk Manager trashed hard disk
>FAT.
>
>> in knowing how I can get around this problem short of going to DOS 4.01
>> (I'm not sure what it would take to change OS's and the partitions, but
>> I imagine that it would require a backup, and playing games with 200 megs
>> of data just doesn't seem all that fun).  If anyone knows of any solution,
>> please feel free to post.  Thanx in advance, Marty
>> ----------
>>
>I don't think there's a way around this without re-partitioning &
>re-formatting the disk. Unless DOS 4.01 disk format and FAT is same as
>the one used by Disk Manager which I sincerely doubt.
>
>Anyway, I feel that with disk size less than 256 MB, you can get away
>with DOS 3.3. Just partition the disk with FDISK into 8 partitions each
>32 MB. They will be assigned drive letters from C: to J: assuming you
>have nothing else. When you start getting into the 300 MB zone, you
>start to run out of drive letter   :-(, and I heard that FDISK will not
>allow you to partition disk to > 8 partitions. So, you must move to
>DOS 4.01.
>
>

I have not heard this. In fact, I have a 307Mbyte SCSI system partitioned into
drives D - L at 32Mbytes each and then drive M at 19Mbytes under 3.3.

Personally I don't mind having the partitions this way, I think of them as
more subdirectories and have them divided up into logical areas anyway. One
might be windows stuff, another for programming stuff, etc. 'Course, haven't
put anything on drives past G yet, but I am getting there.


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