> Hello All
>
> Just a couple of questions on Win95 please. I hear of so many different
> versions of W95 I get confused!!!.
> The reason I want to get a few points clear is because I am soon to
install
> a 8.4gig EIDE harddrive and I want to view it as one drive eg C. I know
> their is arguments against this but I like to keep it simple on this
family
> PC.
I will not answer your other questions as they have already been
sufficiently addressed, I hope.
Only the latest version of Windows (4.00.950 B), otherwise known as OSR2,
can recognize disks larger than 2.1 GB. This is due to the new FAT32
format. Unfortunately, the O in OSR2 stands for OEM, which means that only
PC manufacturers can get it. This is partially for safety, since you can
do a great deal of damage to your files by converting from FAT16 to FAT32.
The only legal way for you to get OSR2 is to buy a new computer.
FAT32 (and presumably a safe way to convert to it) should be a feature of
Windows 98. Of course, that does you no good if you want to upgrade now,
unless you bought your PC in the past 6 months, in which case you may
already have OSR2.
-Alex Knuth
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