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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need info - Using large capacity hard disk w/MS-DOS
Message-ID: <4583@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 02:02:54 GMT
References: <5561@sgistl.SGI.COM>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Keywords: MS-DOS Hard Disk
Summary: me too!



Poster wants to know how to format a large hard disk into two partitions
simultaneously useable as two different logical drives.  I am also
interested in this -- can it be done reliably?  Can MSDOS partition 1
be used for data and MSDOS partition 0 be used for programs to access
data in partition 1?  What level DOS is needed to do this reliably?
(The Zenith MS-DOS 3.2 that came with our 40 MB Z248 claims to be
able to do this but I have been warned against using this feature.)
It would be nice to be able to make frequent backups of only the data
partition.

Michael Volow, M.D.
Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705
919 286 0411                           mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP