On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 David Hurst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I want to add a new 6.4 Gb IDE hard disk to my...win 95 system.
>Will win 95 handle a drive that size ok ??...
>I currently have a single drive with 2 logical drives.. C and D,
>with the CDROM as drive E.
>Will the new drive be able to be used as a single partition...
>And will the new drive be a new E drive, replacing the CDROM...

Background reading on these and related questions can be found
in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.

  ARTICLE
ID      TITLE
Q51978  Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows 95 Assigns Drive Letters
Q69912  MS-DOS Partitioning Summary
Q122052 Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Defined
Q124307 Installing Windows NT on Large IDE Hard Disk Drives
Q124910 Using Ontrack Disk Manager to Support Large IDE Drives
Q126855 Windows Support for Large IDE Hard Disks
Q153550 Hard Disk Limited to 8-GB Partition
Q154997 Description of FAT32 File System

Some of these articles cross-refer (and some that don't should),
so you might as well read them all if this subject is of interest.

You can get your own copy of an article by sending a blank email
to [log in to unmask] with the article-id as the subject, e.g.
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Len Warner <[log in to unmask]> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~len/ ICQ:10120933

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