Mail Archives: opendos/2003/09/09/02:09:45
I don't have any FAT32 partitions (at least, not yet), so I haven't tried
this
stuff, but Florian mentioned in May about a project to add FAT32 and
LBA support to the OpenDOS 7.01 code set : "www.drdosprojects.de".
This project seems to be active, with the latest "snapshot" dated at
2003/8/31. If you have a backup of your hard disk and can therefore
experiment with it, this looks like a worthwhile alternative to try out.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michal H. Tyc [SMTP:mht AT bttr-software DOT de]
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:27 PM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: Fix...; FAT32 access
>
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:19:19 -0400 (EDT), Paul O. BARTLETT wrote:
>
> > 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.)
>
> Oh, yes, a "middle" partition that can be accessed by both systems
> works very well (I tried it before), but only as long as you have
> much free space on your disk and full freedom in partitioning it.
> And while replacing hard disk with bigger one is easy and quite
> cheap in a desktop machine, in a notebook it's not.
>
> Michal
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