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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Hard disk size, partition table
- Message-ID: <135@complex.complex.is>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 01:26:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.214010.7272@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
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- mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov David Mulcihy writes:
-
- >I had two logical drives and wanted to make one larger logical drive.
- >Using a binary editor I changed the partition table and the number of
- >sectors on the drive. However DOS does not think the drive is any larger
- >than before. Where does DOS get the information about the size of the
- >drive?
-
- Assuming that you have changed the partition table correctly, it would
- probably be enough just to run FORMAT - a larger partition means that you
- must update the boot sector, and create bigger FATs.
-
- -frisk
-