I realize this is really off-topic, but there are some statements being made that are not entirely accurate. OSR2 came out, stealthily, in October of this past year. The BIG reason it was not made available to the public at large is simply because if you install it on your existing system, as most people would do, you would have to reformat your disk to take advantage of FAT32. This would be unacceptable to most people. I cheated and got Partition Magic which lets you resize, change file systems and otherwise change partitions without having to reload. A bit like Adager and IMAGE. Now, before you ask, why did Microsoft not include a partition magic-equivalent with OSR2? Probably for the same reasons HP did not include an Adager-equivalent with IMAGE. No one really knows, but it gives third parties a great opportunity. CVT.EXE is a one-way conversion program from FAT16 to FAT32 which will be available with Memphis (Win98). Something like moving from IMAGE to TurboIMAGE, it only goes one way. Now, you can indeed format a disk drive smaller than 512MB into FAT32. There is an undocumented switch with the FDISK utility. FDISK will happily format any disk greater than 512MB as FAT32, provided you enable the "large disk support". You have to do something to enable FAT32, it is not on by default. Also be aware that if you install OSR2 on a machine that did not ship with it, you may be invalidating your warranty. Be careful. Lastly, even machines that have shipped with OSR2, do not seem to have FAT32 enabled, at least in my experience. That is why Partition Magic is so useful. Kind regards, Denys. . . Denys Beauchemin Hicomp America, Inc. [log in to unmask] www.hicomp.com (800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 fax: (281) 355-6879 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Geiser [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 1997 3:48 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: OEMSR2 (was Off Topic: Win95...) On Saturday, July 12, 1997 9:17 AM, James B. Byrne [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote: > > And, before all Win95 users rush out to get SR2 be advised: > > 1. It will not run on older PC's, which is why it is an OEM SR only. Actually, it will run on *some* of the older systems. The benchmark here is that if the system was less than 12 months old as of January, 1997, a P90 or better, then you should not have any problems at all. If it's an older system though, then yes - I would not try to find it. Actually, it's not available for public download in its entirety, but parts of it are (such as the ISDN Connection pieces) from the MS Website. > 2. There are significant changes to the file system which may cause If you're talking about FAT32 - I don't think this is available on the website (I may be wrong there, and if it is...) the utilities will not convert any drive under 512K in total size, and will not convert any DriveSpace compressed drive. It will also not convert any incompatible drive. The new FDISK that came out with SR2 will only offer to convert those drives which exceed 2GB. Since this came out in SR2, it will be available in Memphis (and that's all to be said on *that* subject :-) Cheers, and have a good weekend, Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Geiser CSI Business Solutions 140 Bristol-Oxford Valley Road Suite 102 Langhorne, PA 19047-3083, USA Phone: +1 (215) 945-8100/Fax: +1 (215) 943-8408 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.csillc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------