Time: Mon Nov 11 14:56:11 1996 To: litz@pta6000.pld.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: Win95 & large drives Cc: Bcc: What about NT 4.0 and the HPFS? /s/ Paul Mitchell At 02:17 PM 11/11/96 -0600, you wrote: >In the book "Windows 95 Secrets" by By Brian Livingston, he states >that win95 will support up to 138 GB drives! > >What it doesn't say, is if that is in partitions...or how many >partitions. Nor have I seen any references to this elsewhere. > >There is "something" to the 4.00.950b "OEM" build that the 950 and 950a >builds don't have: a 32 bit FAT support. Microsoft is only relasing >the 32 bit FAT to OEM's (they say) because they (the OEM's) can install >the BIOS support that needed for the new FAT on new PC's. This explains >why you can't (legally) buy Windows 95 OEM in the store. I don't understand your reference to "4.00.950b OEM build". Is this the same as Windows 95 Version 950b? /s/ Paul Mitchell > >Since I build systems, I have several copies of the OEM relase on hand >and will check into it as time permits. > >I remain somewhat skeptical of win95's reliability for large drives, >as one of my PC's at home has three 2.5 GB Western digital >drives...and I'm having a lot file corruption problems (in win95, but >not when I had win 3.1 installed) when trying to backup or copy >files to a Zip Drive, CD recordable, and removable hard disks. I'm >running build 950a though. This is NOT good news. /s/ Paul Mitchell > >-- >Brian Litzenberger >litz@pta6000.pld.com > >
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