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From: ericho@microsoft.UUCP (Eric HOUGH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Help msdos 4.01 question
Message-ID: <71296@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 91 21:11:17 GMT
References: <2918@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: ericho@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Hough)
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In article <2918@cod.NOSC.MIL> medin@cod.nosc.mil (Ted Medin) writes:
>
> Well got msdos 4.0 and finally got around to installing it. Thought 4.0
>required redoing of the hard disk so generated a floppy version. When i
>booted it knew about my hard disk and i was able to execute pgms etc.
>So somebody care to straighten me out on whats going on? Did a quick 
>scan thru the doc and found no warnings about 3.3 <-> 4.0. What have i
>been missing?
>73, ted
>n6trf

installing dos 4.01 over 3.3 only requires repartitioning/reformatting your
hard drive if you wish to take advantage of the ability of dos 4 to allow
you partitions that are larger than 32 MB. If you are happy with the way 
your hard drive is currenly partitioned (or if you only have a harddrive
with 30 mb or less) then you don't need to repartition.

Note that if you do decide to repartition to take advantage of the >32 MB
partition abilities of dos 4, you will need to load the program share.exe
at boot time.