However, the PC Drive file remained 200MB as previously configured; I can certainly bring it up to the 1023MB maximum size. I double-clicked on the drive file to make a PC drive image (named "PC BOOTDISK"), and copied the files to another drive, unmounted it, then pulled the drive file to trash. Then I created a new drive file, size it as 1023MB, mounted the drive and then copied the content of the original back in. However, I could not switch to PC as it reported that it could not find the drive. Trashing that abd replacing the original drive file works fine again, but of course, stuck at 200MB.
Sam, I assume you tried the PC setup control panel to set the drive size? Iirc, that's where you (ultimately) set it.
Win3.1 is fat16 which means while you can make the image larger than 512mb you will not be able to "see" the full size. This isn't a problem after win95b.
(Grab a boot disk)
Another point would be once you have made a new image you must set the partition as active, partition it with fdisk, and then format before copying the files across. You may prefer to mount the drive as D: and boot from the 200mb image then at a command prompt or run box try xcopy C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r which will copy the contents of the C: drive to D:\ without the rubbish you would get when doing it on the mac desktop if that will work at all.
I'm not sure if your more a mac user or pc user, here's some links that may help:
http://homepage.mac.com/olivers/DOScard/DOScard.html - helpful
http://www.network54.com/Forum/30406 - may require digging but rather helpful.
http://www.renewingmind.com/quadrados/quadrados.html - chucked in as we are the quadra list.
Win98 is a resource stretch for very little gain, speed suffers greatly, win95b is a better choice, upgrading IE (to 5 or 5.5 whether you use it or not) will also speed things up a little. Win98 installed with WinLite may overcome 98's slowness - I've never tried.
Summary = unless your running 95b or better keep the image size below 512mb as fat16 will not support the extra size unless partitioned.
http://www.oldos.org/files/driverbootdisk.php if you require a boot disk or drivers for VirtualPC.
There is a Mac N Dos list which maybe of more use to you.
Cheers
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