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.

No - The operating system is sandwiched between FileVan and the drive system. Differences in drive systems are managed by Windows.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Utility patents cover processes,machines, articles of manufacture, compositions of matter, or improvements thereof. Methods of doing business are generally not patentable unless they involve a process of handling some material or pieces of information. In order for an idea to be patentable it must be: Unobvious; that is, it would not have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made.

The City of Woodland sends out utility bills every two months. The minimum bill for residential property is approximately $127.84. The utility bill includes water, sewer, garbage, and recycling.

If you have a balance of more than 66 sick days then you are eligible to convert some of your sick days into vacation days. This facility is known as conversion. Click on the conversion link in your login to learn more about this facility.

The FAT file system does not keep a backup of the boot sector so DiskPatch will need to re-create it from scratch. Run DiskPatch > If you are not performing the operation on the first physical disk in the system, use the Set Disk command to select the disk (count zero based! So the first disk is 0, the 2nd is 1 etc.). DiskPatch will now interpret the partition tables and display characteristics of FAT and FAT32 partitions one by one.

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.

System Restore can be used to remove any system changes that were made since the last time you remember your computer working correctly. System Restore does not affect your personal data files so you won't lose changes made to these files. Windows XP creates "restore points" every day, as well as at the time of significant system events (such as when an application or driver is installed). You can also create and name your own restore points at any time.

Contact the Regulatory Commission for Alaska at (907) 276-6222, or at visit their web site at http://www.state.ak.us/rca/ to file a complaint about a regulated utility. Regulated utilities include most telephone companies, electric companies, water and sewer, and garbage companies. Cable television and cellular services are not regulated by the State of Alaska.

The City sends bills every three months. Each bill covers the previous three months’ usage. Bills are generally mailed out the 15th of January, April, July and October and are due by the 15th of the following month. For example, a City utility bill mailed April 15th covers January, February and March usage and is due by May 15th. If the bill is not paid by the due date, a 10% penalty will be added.

Please call 578-3186 to report any utility problems. Please be specific on the location, and please report if there is a hazard (steam or gas leak, a large hole, electrical lines exposed, etc.)