Mail Archives: opendos/2003/08/22/15:41:45
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Michal H. Tyc wrote (small excerpt):
> To allow peaceful co-existence of
> DR-DOS and Win9x, I used to set all my DR-DOS partitions as type
> 0xD6 (pseudo-secured FAT16), which prevents Windows from seeing them
> and putting long filenames on them (this solution was suggested by
> Matthias quite long time ago). To save my limited hard disk space,
> my Windows partitions are formatted as FAT32, so to copy files between
> Windows and DOS I need the DRFAT32 drivers.
I do not have DR-DOS (or any other) installed on my current
computer, but I did have it on my old and better machine before the
power supply blew out and took most of the machine (including the hard
disk) down with it.
However, on my old machine I found a technique that worked well for
me. I used Partition Magic to create a primary partition at the
"front" of the disk. Then I created an extended partition in the
middle and moved Windows 98 to the back. In the extended partition I
put one logical partition. I formatted the first primary partition and
put DR-DOS 7.03 on it. I formatted the logical partition in the middle
as FAT16. Both DR-DOS and Win98 could see the "middle" partition, so I
used it for passing files back and forth. I just took the care that
from Win98 I only used 8.3 filenames on the common partition. It
worked very well for me. (I did not have a long filename diriver in
DR-DOS.)
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Paul Bartlett
bartlett at smart.net
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