Versions of Windows95 older than OSR2, as well as any DOS version, operate on a file system called FAT16 (or FAT12 in some cases). The existence of large hard drives has led to large partition sizes, which mean large cluster sizes and wasted space: Under FAT16, a smaller cluster size is better, because a small file takes up a whole cluster if there is even one byte in it; the leftover space is called "slack.

OSR2 comes in clear shrink wrap, a manual and one or two CDROM disks. Without breaking the shrinkwrap, you should be able to see a single sheet of paper between the manual and disks. On the manual, the certificate of authenticity does *not* have a hologram of a little boy in front of a computer on it. One CDROM is the OSR2 CDROM, and says "Microsoft Windows 95" on the spine. The other CDROM is called "Microsoft Windows 95 Starts Here/How & Why" and is not always included.

Older 486 motherboard BIOSes do not support IDE hard drives bigger than about 512MB; some older Pentium motherboard BIOSes (as recent as February 1996) do not support IDE drives over 2GB. If you run an IDE HD off such a motherboard, then you have to use a third-party disk manager to access the entire drive. However, these limitations have nothing to with FAT32, that is, if you can get FAT32 on the drive, it will work.

With the FDISK utility in OSR2. FDISK will only allow you to put FAT32 on drives larger than 512MB. Inside FDISK, you must enable "large disk support," to choose FAT32. After exiting FDISK and rebooting, FORMAT (use the OSR2 version only) the drive. NOTE that you must manually reboot after exiting the OSR2 version of FDISK, this is not automatic as in previous versions of FDISK. If you do not reboot between FDISKing and FORMATing, you will get strange-looking error messages.

PowerQuest has released one, as part of Partition Magic version 3.0. It is possible to "force" an upgrade of an existing Windows95 installation, and then convert FAT16 to FAT32 after installation of OSR2. See below for details. Case Study: On a 1.2GB drive, formatted as a single partition, before conversion from FAT16 to FAT32 (via Partition Magic 3.0), there was 58MB free space. After conversion, there was 268MB free space. Your results will vary.

It is true that the OEM versions of just about any software can be purchased cheaply and "unbundled" at computer shows... both legitimate and pirate CDs are available, though it is often hard to tell the difference. This section contains some pointers towards identifying the counterfeits. Cheap! The price in and of itself doesn't determine if the merchandise is counterfeit, but be suspicious if the price is too good to be true.

Right click on the drive icon in My Computer or Windows Explorer. Choose properties. You should see a screen like that at right. The "Type:" line should indicate FAT32.

No. Interestingly, if you use FAT16 with OSR2, and you try to run Compression Agent, you will get an error telling you to install Plus!. Let me know if you can find a workaround other than installing Plus!. My question to Microsoft: Why did you guys put Compression Agent in OSR2, and then disable it in this way? Seems misleading to me to include a component in OSR2 that (on purpose) doesn't work.

For most users, FAT32 will have a negligible performance impact. Some programs may see a slight performance gain from FAT32. In other programs, particularly those heavily dependent on large sequential read or write operations, FAT32 may result in a modest performance degradation." Basically, the more clusters on your hard drive, the slower the performance. This is true for any file system, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, whatever.

Yes. The largest partition you can create with these Disk Managers is 2.1GB. If your HD is larger than this, and you are using a Disk Manager, you must use multiple partitions. If your MB BIOS is dated Jan 1996 or older, you may have to use a Disk Manager to access all of an IDE HD larger than 2.1GB. See this Knowledge Base Article for other issues with Disk Managers.

On a FAT32 File System to avoid fragmentation of directories without ever having to defrag the drive, no directory should hold more than 128 (8 sectors * 16 entries per sector) files / dirs. If the entries are long file name entries, it falls to 64 entries at the maximum.

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any given moment in time in our universe, 97% of the population are purveyors of anti-cluons. Worse, who's in the 97% for any given field at any given time changes, and furthermore, the 97% rule is recursive (see example #1, below)! No wonder it's so difficult to maintain a clue, especially since people who have a clue are loath to help you get it because they loathe anti-cluons.

Since you can no longer boot via F4 to an earlier version of DOS, the easiest thing to do is to run them on the DOS (ver 7.1) under OSR2. Neither OSR2 nor FAT32 should have any effect on the performance of your DOS games. However, see below in the bugs section about a bug involving the real-mode memory manager emm386.exe. For overviews of FAT32, see Microsoft's Market Bulletin on FAT32 and The Knowledge Base entry on FAT32. Yes. And Microsoft will also not support you (or at least not for free).

If ChemNutra has fully complied, then why the need for a search warrant? Or was that just a formality to cover the FDA’s butt. Your posts yesterday intrigued me enough to look into Dr. Jim Martin’s work at Cornell on feline heartworms. And that prodded me to ask for a heartworm screening for my cat later yesterday morning when I had a checkup appt. for her. Long story short, she has heartworm. BAD deal.

LifePak with catechins provides 90 mg of catechins, which is nutritionally significant. This level is the equivalent dose of four cups of traditionally brewed green tea. Tegreen 97 on the other hand provides 160 mg of catechins, which contains the approximate catechin content of seven cups of traditionally brewed green tea. You can never have enough antioxidants in your body and LifePak and Tegreen 97 provides antioxidants in the form of catechins.

I played hooky and ploughed through the Metro specification. Interesting. I satisfied myself that there are ways to anticipate this format in some "package" applications I have in mind, and they should be able to be Metro hybrids in the future. I know what names not to use to avoid future collisions, in particular [;<).

Yes, FrontPage 97 is compatible with the FrontPage 98 extensions. The FrontPage 98 extensions have more feature though.