
   IMPORTANT: First of all run INSTALL.BAT, which will make a bootable
floppy disk, copy partition manager, and save your current MBR on it.
Then it will be safe to continue.

  IMPORTANT: When you resize FAT partitions you must change its size in
two (TWO!!!) places: partition entry in MBR (that's the main screen) and
in the partition's boot sector (select partition and press Enter).

   The help file for partition manager is part.htm. You can view that file
with Netscape or inside partition manager (by pressing F1). If you run 
partition manager from a floppy, get some mouse driver in order to follow
hyperlinks in the help.

   For additional help and information visit my home page. You also will
find there the newest version of the program, bug fixes and source codes.

Note for owners of 8G disks

   The old standard for partition table has the 8G limit for the size of
the hard disk and partitions. Current version of the partition manager
follows that standard and if you have 8G or greater disk it will not be
able to see anything above 8G. However, below 8G everything works as usual.

   If you already have partitions, that reside beyond 8G boundary,
partition manager will mark them as inconsistent and will not do anything
with them. In one of the next versions I am going to add support for the
large disks.

New in version 2.37.07:

   There was added a replacement for the standard FAT-16 boot sector code.
This code resolves the problem with MS-DOS not being able to boot from
partitions above 2G, because of the bug in its boot sector code.
   With this replacement you can now boot MS-DOS from any partition below 8G.
In addition to that you can also dual boot MS-DOS and Windows 95 OSR2, which
also was not available, because of the bugs in OSR2 code.
   To install the code you have to run Partition Manager, select FAT-16
partition and press Enter. You will enter boot sector setup screen. Then
press F6 to install new code and F2 to save changes.
   When you format new partition this code will be installed by default.
To uninstall it you must run "sys.com" of your DOS or Windows 95 system.

   I had tested this code with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 95 OSR2 (4.00.950B).
If you have positive or negative experience running it with any other OS,
please, send me e-mail.


Mikhail Ranish
ranish@intercom.com
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish
http://www.ml.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~mranish
