Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!gordon From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Hard disk question Message-ID: <1991Jun4.212828.2448@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 21:28:28 GMT References: <12690828348018@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 25 CONS.ELF@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Ake Eldberg) writes: >Hi everyone. >I recently bought an IBM 386SX with a 40 megabyte hard disk. >Now, people are telling me that the PC cannot handle more >than 32 MB of hard disk space. That would mean that there are >8 MB on my hard disk which are just sitting there, unused. > >Others have said that MS Windows can use those extra MB's >as a virtual memory, but I don't know how to do that. > >Is thare anybody who can explain? Yes. If you are using a version of DOS of 3.3 or below, each drive can only be 32 megs. To use your 40-meg disk, you would put drive C as 32 megs, and a drive D as 8 megs. Use FDISK to do this. (Drive D is a logical drive.) If you are using DOS 4.0 or above, you can have as large a drive as you want. --- John Gordon Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include