Sam Ewalt wrote: . > It can't be illegal to make "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" for DOS . > from a Windows install if that is what the software is designed to . > do. They have obviously given you the right to do this by including . > the capability to this in the software. It's obviously a legally . > allowed feature.
Last night I sat down and thumbed thru my PM 4.0 manual (remember, RTFM!). Apparently PM has a "wizard" (usable only in Windoze) that will create a rescue disk. However, all this does is hide the process of creating a Windoze rescue disk from the user. In looking thru any Windoze manual (3.1, 95, 98), there are instructions for creating rescue (boot) disks and they all start with, "Rescue disks must be created from the DOS screen," ... click on MSDOS, put formatted floppy in drive A:, type "sys a:", copy fdisk.* a:, copy format.* a:, etc., etc., ... . And, Tom Mueller had written: . > Could DOS, aside from Partition Magic, access beyond 8 GB or 8.4 GB (1024 . > virtual cylinders)? Maybe I could try to make such a logical partition . > on my new computer, using Linux cfdisk and mkdosfs, and see if DR-DOS 7.03 . > recognizes . > it? Also, while RTFM, it became clear why the entire 30 GB of my HD is visible, but PM showed a 2.1 GB partition size. This is a function of FAT 16, not a limitation of DOS or PM! The maximum size of a cluster under FAT 16 is 32K bytes; the maximum number of clusters that can appear in the FAT is 65K; 32K*65K ~ 2.1 GB (QED!). (I would suppose that if I could have had FAT 32 under DOS, and/or my cluster size was larger than 32K, I would have had a larger partition shown under PM.) Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA
