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Robbo
Nov 19th, 2002, 08:17 AM
sorry not really a VB question but is a problem

ive got a primary slave drive 80GB partitioned as fat32, as i require to view in dos as well as win 2K,

i recently had a problem where the fat tables got corrupted, does fat32 support a 80GB in Win 2000 and if not how should i partition the drive?

My primary master drive is 20GB and is ok,

Thanks in advance

DiGiTaIErRoR
Nov 19th, 2002, 09:02 AM
I'm not sure of the exact amount that FAT32 is limited to.

But I'd take a wild guess and say it's larger than any HD they make currently.

Of course, NTFS is better, but we both knew that!

maxl
Nov 19th, 2002, 09:23 AM
Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think that the classic DOS supports FAT32

DiGiTaIErRoR
Nov 19th, 2002, 09:28 AM
Originally posted by maxl
Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think that the classic DOS supports FAT32

Right.

plenderj
Nov 19th, 2002, 09:33 AM
Convert to NTFS and then use NTFSDOS (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml)

Robbo
Nov 19th, 2002, 11:08 AM
the thing is the boot disk i have boots cd rom drivers and power quest drive image and it is this i wish to view images on the second drive to restore to primary master drives?

thanks in advance

will the extra files fit onto the floppy boot disk if so is there any code for the ntfs dos to work or is it just an exe