In article <01bd7fdd$2f78fc80$LocalHost@dell>, Laurie Miles
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>Actually, there is a 2GB limit in Windows/DOS, for a single partition. So,
>you would have to partition the new drive as two drives, eg 2GB and 500MB.
>If your new disk is larger thgan your old one, then it is probably faster as
>well, and you would be better off swapping the disks about, so that the new
>drive is drive C&D, the old drive is drive E, and the CD-ROM is drive F.
>
You can partition to bigger than 2 gig.
The version of fdisk on the 95 cdrom will do it and this should appear
on a Setup disk if you ask 95 to make one. Not sure it matters that
much though whether you go for one, two or more partitions - there are
advantages to all and disadvantages.
I had a problem cos my cdrom drivers were on an older setup disk and
this wouldnt work when I booted from the newer disk - so I was kippered
- direct copying across didnt work. So a friendly techie man from
Meditel who was visittin had his brains picked - we had to copy across
and rejig the config.sys on the newer disk. When run it reported loads
of config.sys errors but did the job - I like Meditel :)
Can anyone tell me how to make a setup disk from my system and how to
include the cdrom driver and get it to load? I can do this again and
could manage the bodge mentioned above - but it would be nice to be able
to do it slicker.
Cheers :)
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Dr Jel Coward
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