On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:35, Gerry Hickman wrote:
> Johnson Lam wrote:
>
>
> > Strange that FreeDOS can see the full size 140GB, but MS-DOS just 8GB
>
> This could well be a limitation with MS-DOS. There were certainly
> differences between MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK and the FDISK that ships with
> Win95/98/ME (FAT32 and "large" drives), but none of them are as nice as
> FreeDOS.
I multiboot this system with PCDOS2k and Linux. 8gb is the limit I
found for extended partitions. Larger is not seen as a dos disk.
Logical partitions and the primary are limited to about 2g.
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