V2GB (Fix DOS problem with disks greater than 2GB)

Version:

1.3

Release date:

Friday, 21 October, 2016

Home:

http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/v2gb.html

Categories:

System: enhancements

License:

BSD

Interface:

VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Robert D Eager

This program, V2GB, is a solution to the problem caused by the inability of many DOS programs to handle a partition in excess of 2GB in size. This shortcoming causes spurious reports of insufficient disk space.

The interesting thing about this particular solution is that it is implemented as a virtual device driver. This means that it is a 32-bit driver that loads into system memory rather than the virtual DOS machine, and thus it occupies ZERO bytes inside the VDM. It is thus preferable to other solutions such as resident programs and conventional device drivers that hook interrupt vectors. It also means that control of the driver is possible on a per-VDM basis, without modifying DOS startup files such as AUTOEXEC.BAT.

The package includes the following:

The V2GB.SYS driver
The associated README.TXT file
Source code

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

For more details, see the included README.TXT file.

WARNING: If you use the TSR program 2gbfix.com, verify its presence inside AUTOEXEC.BAT file and comment out it if there is a trend for V2GB driver.

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

V2GB (Fix DOS problem with disks greater than 2GB) v. 1.3 (21/10/2016)	Readme/What's new	Now released under the BSD 3-Clause license.
www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/utils/v2gb.zip	local copy