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From: Butch Bussen <butchb@shellworld.net>
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I do it all the time using a 98 dos disk produced by 98.  About as 
microsoft as you can get.  The partition size isn't the problem--it is 
the 2gig file size.  If you drop back to dos 5 or six, that is true. 
Actually, dos 3.3 would only recognize 32 meg.
73s
Butch Bussen
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Doug 
Sutherland wrote:

> What DOS are you using?
>
> Microsoft DOS had this limit:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/118335
>
> You'll see these limits all over the web
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dos+maximum+partition+size&meta=
>
> If you're using DR-DOS or something, I wouldn't call that DOS.
> Is it MS-DOS or what exactly are you running?
>
> Glenn wrote;
>> That is not true.
>> I have accessed all sizes of partitions in DOS.
>
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