Guest Nuno Gomes Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Hello all, I have a question to do: The DOS only read/write in a disk with a max capacity of 2Mb. Using the Windows XP to run DOS programs in a disk with 40Gb what happens? When the data in the disk go over 2 Mb the CLIPPER's programs works without problem?... Thank you for your help. Nuno Gomes Nuno Gomes
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Run DOS Programs in WinXP "Nuno Gomes" <nuno.gomes@domp.pt> wrote in message news:48db7d76$0$14203$a729d347@news.telepac.pt... > Hello all, > > I have a question to do: > The DOS only read/write in a disk with a max capacity of 2Mb. > Using the Windows XP to run DOS programs in a disk with 40Gb what happens? > When the data in the disk go over 2 Mb the CLIPPER's programs works > without problem?... > > Thank you for your help. > > > Nuno Gomes > > > Nuno Gomes Your statement "The DOS only read/write in a disk with a max capacity of 2Mb." is unclear. Are you referring to the maximum file size? Diskette size? Disk size? And where did you get this 2 MByte limit from?
Guest Nuno Gomes Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 Re: Run DOS Programs in WinXP I'm referring to the hard disk size. Has far i know, the DOS only is capable to use a 2 Mb of disk size... But i'm running a DOS program in Windows XP, so when the data in the hard disk become mode than 2 Mb what happens?... Thank you for your help. Nuno Gomes "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> escreveu na mensagem news:eWpAL7wHJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > > Your statement "The DOS only read/write in a disk with a max capacity of > 2Mb." is unclear. Are you referring to the maximum file size? Diskette > size? Disk size? And where did you get this 2 MByte limit from? >
Guest John John (MVP) Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 Re: Run DOS Programs in WinXP That's news to me. I remember running a Novell Server on a DOS 3.x backbone and my disk size was 60MB. I think that what you are thinking about is the FAT16 2GB partition size limit. This is a non issue, you can install and run DOS programs on the same disk that is hosting the operating system, with Windows 2000 this is usually an NTFS disk well over 2GB in size! The NT Virtual DOS Machine will present the disk to the DOS applications in a manner that the applications can understand. John Nuno Gomes wrote: > I'm referring to the hard disk size. > Has far i know, the DOS only is capable to use a 2 Mb of disk size... > > But i'm running a DOS program in Windows XP, so when the data in the hard > disk become mode than 2 Mb what happens?... > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > > Nuno Gomes > > "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> escreveu na mensagem > news:eWpAL7wHJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > >> >>Your statement "The DOS only read/write in a disk with a max capacity of >>2Mb." is unclear. Are you referring to the maximum file size? Diskette >>size? Disk size? And where did you get this 2 MByte limit from? >> > > >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 Re: Run DOS Programs in WinXP "Nuno Gomes" <nuno.gomes@domp.pt> wrote in message news:48dca1d8$0$8774$a729d347@news.telepac.pt... > I'm referring to the hard disk size. > Has far i know, the DOS only is capable to use a 2 Mb of disk size... > > But i'm running a DOS program in Windows XP, so when the data in the hard > disk become mode than 2 Mb what happens?... > > > Thank you for your help. I think you should check your facts. We had a DOS 6.2 machine in 1987 and it had a "huge" disk of 20 MBytes, ten times more than the limit you quote. However, there are a couple of limitations under some versions of DOS 7 (=Windows XP): - Maximum partition size: 32 GBytes (Gbytes, not MBytes!) - Maximum file size: 4 GBytes There are some third-party tools that let DOS 7.0 recognise partitions large than 32 GBytes.
Guest letterman@invalid.com Posted September 29, 2008 Posted September 29, 2008 Re: Run DOS Programs in WinXP You might start by going to the XP newsgroup. Asking about XP in microsoft.public.win2000.general is like trying to buy lumber at a grocery store. On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:01:00 +0100, "Nuno Gomes" <nuno.gomes@domp.pt> wrote: >Hello all, > >I have a question to do: >The DOS only read/write in a disk with a max capacity of 2Mb. >Using the Windows XP to run DOS programs in a disk with 40Gb what happens? >When the data in the disk go over 2 Mb the CLIPPER's programs works without >problem?... > > > > >Thank you for your help. > > >Nuno Gomes > > >Nuno Gomes >
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