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Hugh,
No, this is not correct. Win95a with FAT16 will support partitions up to 2
GB's. However, it is the BIOS and motherboard which will determine the limit
on how large your drive can be. On Jan 1997, I purchased Win95a and a clone
Intel Triton VX chipset motherboard. The Award BIOS v4.51PG was dated
10/20/1996. I originally bought a 1.6 GB WD HDD with it but later in June 1998
upgraded to a 6.4 GB WD HDD. Win95a and the VX motherboard recognized the
entire drive. I believe this motherboard had a limit of either 6.4 GB's or 8.4
GB's. I never found out which; I gave it away.
Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, in order to efficiently store data on a
drive using FAT16 you would have to use 512 MB partitions (even then you would
waste 10%). Technology is constantly evolving; Drives are getting bigger;
O/S's and software need more space. I think Win95a's days are over and it's
time to let it pass on to that big computer in the sky. <G>
Daniel.
Hugh Valliant wrote:
> Hi Ed and Daniel,
>
> As I stated before, Win95 original WILL ONLY SUPPORT 2.1GB..... It doesn't
> matter how you slice it... You will not get Win95 original to recognize a
> hard drive larger than 2.1GB..... It's a fact of Win95 software
>
> Get the latest version of PartitionMagic 5.0.... or 4.0
>
> Hugh
>
> At 06:19 PM 11/6/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >Ed,
> >I've had much experience with partitions so I can help you. When you
> >create 1 partition on your master drive it is, as you know, C: and your
> >primary partition. When you create 1 partition on your second slave drive
> >it is, as you know, D: and its primary partition.
> >
> >Although this doesn't apply to you, you should know each drive can have up
> >to 4 primary partitions but only one can be active and seen by your
> >O/S. FDISK will allow you to create more than 1 primary partition and
> >choose which is active.
> >
> >After you create a primary partition, you create your Extended partition
> >for the rest of the drive. Inside your Extended partition, you create
> >logical partitions. With FDISK, once you create a drive, you cannot
> >resize it. This is where you are having trouble. With your deleted E:
> >logical partition inside your Extended partition, you now have a large
> >empty space there. Since your E: partition encompassed your entire
> >Extended partition of your master drive, your entire Extended partition is
> >empty.
> >
> >The easiest way to increase your C: partition is to use PM to delete your
> >Extended partition and resize your C: partition.
> >
> >Another way is to use some type of free partition copy software, such as
> >which comes with hard drives sometimes, to copy it to another hard drive,
> >delete all the partitions on your original drive, and finally copy the C:
> >partition back. I once used Western Digital's HDD software which comes
> >with their drives and it was total junk. It did an excellent job of
> >trashing my HDD's partition table and it took me days to figure out how to
> >fix it.
> >
> >The third and final way you already know and is the hardest. Backup the
> >entire C: partition to tape, use FDISK to delete all partitions, recreate
> >C:, and restore from tape. Problem with this method is that I'm not
> >exactly sure how you're going to use your tape backup software if you have
> >deleted all your software on your C: partition. Even if you have your
> >tape backup software on D:, the software uses your Windows Registry and
> >you have, of course, deleted it (and that's not good, that's a bad thing
> >LOL). And let's not forget about those shared Windows\System files your
> >backup software uses (it may get a bit upset when it can't find them <G>).
> >
> >If you don't want to reinstall your entire system, it would behoove you to
> >buy PM. Because your drives are under 8 GB, maybe you can borrow PM v3.05
> >from someone. You can copy the main files onto a floppy and use PM from
> >there.
> >
> >Some further information for you: Your O/S will first recognize the
> >active primary partition in your master drive, then the active primary
> >partition in your slave drive, then the logical partitions in the extended
> >partition in your master drive, and finally the logical partitions in the
> >extended partition in your slave drive. The active primary partition in
> >your master drive is always the boot partition.
> >
> >Good Luck,
> >Daniel.
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