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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: Re: VAT32, DR-DOS 7.03, Dos progs,etc.
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:11:36 +0100
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Paul wrote:
>Can anyone help. I recently upgraded to a 10 Gig drive and I found to my
disappointment >the limits of FAT 16, namely a maximum of 2 Gig partitions,
and not being able to see >the last 2 Gig of my drive due to it having a
limitation to the number of cylinders it >can see on a hard drive. It
appears that in order to be able to get around this, I >would have to
convert to FAT 32.

You can use MS-DOS 7.x and still use FAT16 partitions (yes above 8.4G).
Personally I'll partition my 46G HD (should get here the comming week) with
FAT32 for (Windows 95) OSR2 and use FAT16 for my DOS needs (which equals to
8.4G - 0.5G (win9x boot) = 7.9G).
//Bernie