Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:19:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul O. BARTLETT" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Fix for OEM DR-DOS 7.04/7.05 rename bug; FAT32 access In-Reply-To: <200308221152.h7MBqmj30391@delorie.com> Message-ID: X-PGP-key: ftp://ftp.smart.net/pub/bartlett/pgpkey X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: E62D 2E2C 7BCD 08CB B742 A937 26A9 1532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.) -- Paul Bartlett bartlett at smart.net PGP key info in message headers