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

[Dale Miller]

Maxwell, John wrote:
> 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! :-) ).
>   
You can acquire boot disks here.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

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