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MB drive running Disk Mangler, DriveLamer, etc?

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MB drive running Disk Mangler, DriveLamer, etc?

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These disk managers allow systems, that otherwise can’t handle drives with more than 1024 cylinders, to work with these drives. They’re typically larger than 500 megabytes. Ontrack’s Disk Manager and MicroHouse’s DrivePro work OK with Win95’s 32-bit disk drivers, so you can install like you could for an upgrade, but you should consider a BIOS upgrade and a system backup before attempting to install Win95 on systems with disks bigger than 500 megabytes. These disk managers are vulnerable to boot record viruses, making your system unstartable! On a system that supports large hard drives by design, a virus strike will not cause such damage (though it will do other nasty stuff of course; at least the virus is easier to remove!) Warning on FAT32: Ontrack’s Disk Manager 7.0 or earlier does not work with protected mode disk drivers and FAT32 (it does seem to work with MS-DOS mode access though). If you must keep the disk mangler because your BIOS does not work with disks larger than 500 MB, u

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