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From: figlik@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Figlik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need info - Using large capacity hard disk w/MS-DOS
Message-ID: <3948@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 13:41:10 GMT
References: <5561@sgistl.SGI.COM> <4583@ecsvax.UUCP> <3093@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: figlik@ihlpl.UUCP (55242-Figlik,J.R.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3093@cup.portal.com> truett@cup.portal.com writes:
>With regard to MS-DOS being able to handle multiple partitions on a hard disk:
>
>1) Up through version 3.2 of PC-DOS and most varieties of MS-DOS, only a
>   single DOS partition could be created by FDISK.  It was always possible
>   to have partitions for other operating systems on a drive.  Note that the
>   single DOS partition was limited to a size of 32 MB.
 
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>Truett Lee Smith, Sunnyvale, CA
>UUCP:  truett@cup.portal.com

There is one twist to this situation. I admit it's a kludge. But it
works most of the time. The MS-DOS "JOIN" command can take a disk and
make it look as if it's a directory on another disk.

e.g. 1 70 Mb disk is divided into 2 30M and 1 10M logical disks C, D, & E.
     Disk C is bootable. By giving the following commands, D and E are 
     accessible via subdirectories /data1 & /data2 (I know the slashes are
     backwards).

		c:/> join d: data1
		c:/> join e: data2

If they already exist, /data1 & /data2 on C: must be empty. CHKDSK will
recognise the fact that other disks are "join"ed and will only respond
to the C: drive. A directory of /data1 will produce the "root" directory
of disk D: and E:'s root directory is listed in /data2.