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: 
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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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