ugfailau@sunybcs (Fai Lau) (01/19/88)
Hi, is there anyway I could have more than four
drives in a PC? I have two floppies, one 30meg, and
one SUBST d drive that is on whenever the PC is on.
Is there anyway I can either add another virtual drive
and name it whatever I want (e: to z:) or to undo
the SUBST so d: is free to be reconfigured?
Thanx!
Fai Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
UU: ..{rutgers,ames}!sunybcs!ugfailau
BI: ugfailau@sunybcs INT: ugfailau@joey.cs.buffalo.EDUcreps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) (01/20/88)
In article <7922@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes: > Hi, is there anyway I could have more than four >drives in a PC? I have two floppies, one 30meg, and >one SUBST d drive that is on whenever the PC is on. >Is there anyway I can either add another virtual drive >and name it whatever I want (e: to z:) or to undo >the SUBST so d: is free to be reconfigured? I just did this on my system this past weekend. Make sure everything is backed up from your hard disk, then use FDISK and the option to create DOS partition. When it asks if you want to use the entire disk say no, and then tell it how much to use. Then you can go back to the same option and create another DOS partition. This partition will be D:, whereas the first one is C:. You can create as many partitions as you will need. A note: on my system I allocated about 19Mb for C: and 1Mb for D:. The reason for breaking this into partitions is to reduce fragmentation. Drive D: will be used for temporary files, and to hold downloads. Due to this type of use, it will become very fragmented after not too long a time. Having it in a separate partition keeps my main system structure from becoming fragmented. - - - - - - - - - Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University. creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu, ...iuvax!silver!creps, creps@iubacs.bitnet "F-14 Tomcat! There IS no substitute."
madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) (01/20/88)
In article <7922@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes: > Hi, is there anyway I could have more than four >[logical] drives in a PC? [..] >Is there anyway I can either add another virtual drive >and name it whatever I want (e: to z:) or to undo >the SUBST so d: is free to be reconfigured? Easy. First, adding logical drives. In your config.sys file, just add the line LASTDRIVE=<something>: For example: LASTDRIVE=F: would give you logical drives A: through F:, which is what it sounds like you want to do. As for SUBST, I believe the command to delete a SUBST drive is: SUBST <drive>: /d As in "subst d: /d". jim frost madd@bu-it
myxm@beta.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) (01/20/88)
Put the following line in your CONFIG.SYS file... LASTDRIVE = Z You should now be able to use the SUBST command to your heart's content (oh by the way, SUBST d: /D will delete the substitution so you could reuse it). Mike Mitchell myxm@lanl.gov ...!cmcl2!lanl!myxm
apn@nonvon.uucp (Alex P Novickis) (01/24/88)
In article <7922@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes: > > Hi, is there anyway I could have more than four >drives in a PC? I have two floppies, one 30meg, and >one SUBST d drive that is on whenever the PC is on. >Is there anyway I can either add another virtual drive >and name it whatever I want (e: to z:) or to undo >the SUBST so d: is free to be reconfigured? > Thanx! > >Fai Lau >SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland) >UU: ..{rutgers,ames}!sunybcs!ugfailau >BI: ugfailau@sunybcs INT: ugfailau@joey.cs.buffalo.EDU use LASTDRIVE=Z in config.sys or undo subst d:.... by subst d:/d -- Alex P Novickis [software engineering consultant] +1 707 575 9616 UUCP: {ames,sun,lll-crg,pyramid}!ptsfa!nonvon!apn CS: [76056,601] USMAIL: 1635 Ditty Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 BITNET: EEFA02P@CALSTATE | Only those who attempt the absurd I think, I think it's in my basement|