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Subject: Re: Updating DOS on a harddisk
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 22:40:52 EST
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A few people have written concerning updating a hard disk from DOS
2.x to DOS 3.x.  Yes, you must reformat the hard disk with 3.x to
take advantage of the 2K cluster size, BUT only AFTER you remove
the DOS 2.x partition(s) with the DOS 2.x FDISK program, and then
create a new partition(s) with the DOS 3.x FDISK program.  If you
simply reformat the DOS 2.x hard disk with DOS 3.x you will not get
the smaller cluster size.  DOS 2.x's cluster size is 8K.

David J. Buerger
dbuerger@scu.bitnet