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Just to complete this thread, I'm reporting back on progress. I am very pleased with the results, but a bit mystified about how I have got there while seemingly overcoming the disk size barrier already mentioned in this thread.
This is what I did: I mounted a new 40 gig HDD in a USB backup drive casing, then used Acronis True Image 9.0 to copy the installed 6 gig drive onto it. I then mounted the new 40 gig drive in my machine (Toughbook CF-45 266MHz 160Mb ram - yes, sorry I misreported this earlier in the thread as 192) and booted up. It worked perfectly, preserving all my settings, files ... everything. Not only that, things seemed to be going a bit faster, and I guess this is because modern disks are a bit faster to give up their data than the old ones. I was impressed.
But wait. I was expecting to find that only 12 gig or perhaps 32 gigs of the drive would be recognised, as per the previous remarks in this thread. But all the indications are that the full 39 or so gigs are being detected in FAT32. True, the 4.5 gigs of stuff I had on the old disk had spread out to take up over 6 gigs, and I understand that this is because of the new larger block (sector? chunk? forgotten the word, but you know what I mean) size stores the stuff less economically. I loaded well over 12 gigs of stuff on the disk, just to make sure it could be done.
So, I'm pleased to have exchanged my crowded old 6 gig disk for a 40 gig disk, and I have to report that True Image worked faultlessly (BTW, I have no connection with Acronis) Still a bit confused, though, about that upper limit. Will my data disappear in some future retributive disk blizzard?
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