[Discussion] DOS Critical Error

[Brad Montroy]

Felmon, you're wrong.  The BIOS has nothing to do with partitions. 
Partitions are created and controlled by the Operating System.

In regard to DOS, my memory is uncertain also, but I seem to remember that 4 
primary partition are possible, and in the Extended partition you can have 
a hundred partitions if you want.  There is no limit there, except for the 
size and disk space available.  There has to be at least one primary 
partition to boot from.  And yes, there is a limit on the size of partitions 
in both Fat 16 and Fat 32.  I don't remember the numbers, but Fat 32 was a 
larger limit.

Brad Montroy
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felmon Davis" <davisf at union.edu>
To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Discussion] DOS Critical Error


On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Carl Gehr wrote:

> One more question:  Doesn't DOS have a maximum partition size?
> I know I have had to create a small partition [FAT16] to install
> some old Win16 programs because even with an empty, but larger
> drive, the installer says there's not enough space.
>
> I don't know what the number is, but I'm sure there are problems
> with a size greater than 'n...nMB'.
>
> Carl

everyone is referring to 'DOS' but I thought the limitation is due to
the BIOS of PCs. I believe there are 4 primary partitions though
maybe it's 3 and one extended. not sure.

if it's a BIOS limitation then it doesn't just apply to DOS.

maybe people means something special by 'DOS'. I just think of it as a
disk operating system. I assume one would get a similar error in
Windows, Linux or OS-X.

please instruct me if I am wrong!

Felmon

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:03:11 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Clayton wrote:
>
> >Brian,
> >
> >Firstly, Is it an 800 GB or an 80 GB. (Wow. How things have GROWN!)
> >
> >Secondly, HOW did you partition the drive? (LVM, Part'n. Magic,
> >          Part'n Manager)
> >
> >Thirdly, Besides the Boot Manager partition which HAS TO BE a Primary,
> >         what type/kind are the others.
> >(Is there an EXTENDED boundary into which some fit and are, therefore, 
> >LOGICAL drives?)
> >
> >Lastly, you're using 'only' 16-17GBs of an 800MB drive. Is that what you 
> >bought it for? (to waste space?)  ;-)
> >
> >Thomas Clayton
> >
> >
> >--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com>
> >> Subject: [Discussion] DOS Critical Error
> >> To: "POSSI" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> >> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:39 AM
> >> I have an 800 GB HD partial
> >> partitioned.
> >> 7.8 MB (Boot Mgr)
> >> 502 MB
> >> 3757 MB
> >> 6000 MB
> >> 6000 MB
> >>
> >> I am able to make folders in the last 6K partition and
> >> could write some data to it. Now I get this error when I try
> >> to save data
> >> into new folders I made. DOS Critical Error, cannot
> >> find [here is the folder name]. Anyone understand
> >> what's going on?
>
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