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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need info - Using large capacity hard disk w/MS-DOS
Message-ID: <4330031@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 88 19:06:24 GMT
References: <5561@sgistl.SGI.COM>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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>As of PC-DOS version 3.3, the supplied FDISK program can create more than
>one DOS readable partition.  Each is still limited to 32 MB and only one
>can be "active", i.e., bootable, at any time.
>
>Truett Lee Smith, Sunnyvale, CA
>UUCP:  truett@cup.portal.com
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I have an NEC APC IV (AT compatible) with a 40 meg disc partitioned
into 32 and 8 with L_FDISK, a utility NEC supplied with the DOS 3.1
that came with the system.  When I tried to upgrade to PC-DOS 3.3,
I couldn't get FDISK to partition the disc properly.  It would put
32M into one DOS partition and all the rest into a NON-DOS partition.
I had backed-up my disc and started with a full physical reformat
of the hard disk -- no shortcuts.  After several hours of trying
to install 3.3, I finally gave up and went back to 3.1.  PC-DOS
(IBM's version of MS-DOS) may not be suitable for clone users.

John Hardin 
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