Re: AE PCT Hard Drive Corrupted

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Maybe somebody with a PCT could create a small partition for you, copy
on
> > the required files to boot into MSDOS and format the partition (if
> > necessary), then shrink it and email it to you. It wouldn't have to be
very
> > big, just a few hundred Kb before compression.
>
> this idea had occured to me, but if it was created small that would
> basically limit it to that size ?, or can it be made bigger later on ?

I don't *think* you can increase the size, but it probably doesn't matter.
I'm fairly sure the main issue is that you could create *another* (larger)
partition file later!

> I was still curious as to whether I could create the partition myself and
> copy the MSDOS files across to create a bootable partition. say I want to
> make MSDOS 3.3, 4.0 or MSDOS 5.0, or whatever I happen to have on system
> floppys.

As I've said before, I don't have a PCT or the docs, but it sounds like you
do. Doesn't it tell you how to create a partition?
--
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)