On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:06:22 -0500, Roger Turk wrote: > 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.) Uhum...... You CAN have FAT32 under DOS. http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm (jump to zip files section of the page and grab a copy of drfat32.zip ) -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
