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From: 9020675@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk question
Message-ID: <17593.2850041f@ul.ie>
Date: 7 Jun 91 22:09:34 GMT
References: <12690828348018@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE>
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland
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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?
> 
> Ake Eldberg

   To the best of my knowledge (I hope I am right) dos 4.0 upwards can handle
any size of Hard Drive - my 386 has an 80 meg HD running on dos 4.01. I am 
refering to MS Dos, PC dos I dont know.

  One way to check is to type : chkdsk c:

  If your machine isnt partitioned it will give you the total size of the disk
in bytes. If it is partitioned into 2 or more drives then do the same for each
part, substituting c for what ever letter the drive is...

   hope that helps !!!


  Alan 

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