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Jerry Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:43:57 -0500
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Don't forget that DOS under Win95 will not see a harddisk larger than 8GB
total.  No logical drive can be larger than 2GB.
Jerry Rasmussen

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Win95 and Partition Magic


I have Partition Magic 4 and it will convert a boot partition back to FAT.
I just did on one of my systems so that I could install NT.  Remember you
run into the 2GB partition limitation with FAT.

Ben Moore

-----Original Message-----
Subject: [PCBUILD] Win95 and Partition Magic

>I inadvertently formatted a drive as FAT32 and installed Win95. After
>getting the whole thing setup over a period of weeks, I went to install
>NT4.0 and discovered the problem. I have Partition Magic and have
>experimented with converting other partitions to FAT, and it works, but I
>have yet to gather the courage to risk the boot partition.
>
>

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