[Discussion] DOS Critical Error

[Thomas Clayton]

Dale,

Your letter JUST "showed up", here on Monday night, at my Inbox.

As for,
>     In old times;  FAT16 was limited to
> 2GB maximum ???????
Yes, AFAIK.

Tom C

--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Dale A Cook <cookda at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Dale A Cook <cookda at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] DOS Critical Error
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 5:13 PM
> 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
> >
> > 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?
> >
... <snip> ...
> >
> >
>     In old times;  FAT16 was limited to
> 2GB maximum ???????
>