Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Can Windows 3.0 handle 80Meg HD partition? Message-ID: <3489@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 19 Oct 90 20:02:27 GMT References: <36440006@hpindwa.cup.hp.com> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 18 owenc@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Owen Cheung) writes: >I have heard that Windows 3.0 and DOS 4.0 cannot handle harddisk partition >of greater than 80Meg. Is that true? Any work around? No, it's not true. I'm using Windows 3, DOS 4.0 and a 120 MByte partition at home and most people in my group use a similar combination with one or more partitions between 32 and 200 MByte for some time now and without disk related problems. Where did you hear this? It is a known problem that Windows 3 does not like some third party partitioning programs which allow partitions greater than 32 MB on DOS versions below 4.0. The usual workaround is to upgrade to DOS 4.0. The limit of "80 MByte" seems a bit strange to me. Wolfgang Strobl #include