[Ham-Computers] RE: Ham-Computers Digest, Vol 56, Issue 10

[Maxwell, John]

Kurt,
   Sorry for the late reply, but the problem is that MS-DOS 6.22 had
many limitations. Windows 3.x installed over top of MS-DOS and was not
capable of re-partitioning, because it was not designed to do so.
   Windows 98/SE can see more than 2 Gb, but I think that the problem is
that it is trying to use the old DOS partition that you had set up. The
version of Win98SE is an upgrade version, but in order to use the full
partition, you will need to BOOT from the Win98SE disc. At this point
you can then use the FDISK.EXE that came with it. If you have a Windows
98SE boot diskette, you should be able to find FDISK.EXE on it and it
will partition larger than 2Gb, though you may not find FORMAT.COM (it
is tucked away in the cab file: "EBD.CAB" [I think that's the filename,
it's been a few years since I used this], use EXPAND.EXE to extract
FORMAT.COM, if needed.) If you don't have a Win98/SE boot diskette, let
me know and I'll send an image of it to you and you can re-create it on
your end of the pipe. My image of Win98SE diskette has FORMAT.COM
already extracted to eliminate the extra step when I have to work on
friends' older laptops/desktops.
   You mention that you'd rather not start over, but it may be in your
best interest in order to gain the FAT32 file system and other features.
Don't worry about the upgrade without installing Win 3.x or 95
beforehand, just insert one of the diskettes that came with Win 3.x and
it will see that you have a previous, 'legal' copy of Windows, even if
the hard drive is freshly formatted!
   Hope this helps, please let me know it I can help further (presuming,
of course, that I've helped thus far! :-) ).

    Take care,
      -John   W2JM

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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:25:47 -0700
From: "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Installing Windows 98 SE
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,
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I have a laptop, IBM Thinkpad 770.   It has a 5 GB hard disk.

I installed DOS 6.22, which only sees about 2 GB.

I then Installed Windows 3.11.

I then installed a BackPack CD ROM drive to operate through the parallel
port.

I put a Windows 98SE upgrade disk into the CD ROM and upgrded to Windows
98SE.

98SE still only sees 2 GB.

In checking the file system, I see it is FAT16.

It there a way to get 98 SE to use the whole drive without starting over
and
trying a different route?

Kurt



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