int 0x13 utility

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:18:36 -0500, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of ArarghMail803NOSPAM:
 
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> Remember, most versions of fdisk have a bug that limits them to a
> 64gig FAT32 partition.  I think it got fixed in ME.  In any case,
> there is/was an update for that problem from MS.

Funny, 4.00.1111 didn't limit me to 64GB FAT32 partition, I was able to
use an entire 120GB hard disk.
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:31:58 +0100, Alex Buell  <spamtrap@crayne.org>
wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:18:36 -0500, I waved a wand and this message
>magically appears in front of ArarghMail803NOSPAM:
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>
>Funny, 4.00.1111 didn't limit me to 64GB FAT32 partition, I was able to
>use an entire 120GB hard disk.

Apparently it was on 98 and 98SE:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:31:58 +0100, Alex Buell  <spamtrap@crayne.org>
wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:18:36 -0500, I waved a wand and this message
>magically appears in front of ArarghMail803NOSPAM:
> 
>
>Funny, 4.00.1111 didn't limit me to 64GB FAT32 partition, I was able to
>use an entire 120GB hard disk.

Also see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246818/EN-US/
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:32:05 +0200, "Wolfgang Kern"
<spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:
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>So even a DOS5.00 were able to RD/WR the first 512 MB on every
>reported partition.
>Dos 6.00 can RD/WR 2GB ...
>any later MS-DOS may be able to access up to 8GB
>but as I said already in this thread:
>

No MS/DR/PC-DOS can handle more than 2GB partitions, as this is a
limitation of FAT16 (Ok, Windows NT can handle up to 4G, using 64KB
clusters on FAT16). And MS-DOS 6.22 is what the OP was trying to use.
End of story.

RR

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:03:34 -0700, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Red Rooster:

> No MS/DR/PC-DOS can handle more than 2GB partitions, as this is a
> limitation of FAT16 (Ok, Windows NT can handle up to 4G, using 64KB
> clusters on FAT16). And MS-DOS 6.22 is what the OP was trying to use.

Not quite right. If you extract DOS 7.x from the Windows 95 OSR 2 (or
better) distribution media, you have a DOS that's capable of using FAT32
on most large hard disks. I've managed to install it on a Pentium 166
w/ a 40GB hard disk. Works a treat, if I might say so myself!
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