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From: barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk question
Message-ID: <7767@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 00:50:01 GMT
References: <12690828348018@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE>
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <12690828348018@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE> 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?

    Dos 4.0x (and above) can access hard drives with large (> 32mb)
    partitions.  Dos versions less than 4.0 require you to partition
    the disk up to a maximum of 32mb.  Thus, you will have 2 accessible
    drives (one 32mb big and one 8mb big).  Note:  the 8mb disk _is_
    accessible if you create a partition and format it, assuming
    Dos < 4.0x.