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Bep,,, I don't know what the limit is, I have fat-32 drives from 20 to
160 Gig and all play nice with win-98se

bep wrote:
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I did not realize that Fat 32 was limited to 32GB. I thought the
> limitation was somewhere in the range of 80 - 90 GB drives. I know I
> have a 40GB setting around ( from the old Dish network dishplayer ) I
> will plug that in and try and scrounge up some RAM. I am not sure what
> the slot configuration is for RAM, I will pop the hood and then go on
> my RAM scavager hunt.
>
> BEP
>

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Figured it out.....

General Kireiko wrote:
> My statement regarding FAT32 paritions not being larger than 32GB is not
> 100 percent correct. The 32GB limit is a Microsoft legacy issue. The
> disk tools supplied with Win9x are still based on 16-bit DOS, so they can
> only create partions up to 32GB. There are thrid party tools available
> which will create FAT32 partitions greater than 32 GB which can also be read
> by Win98. I do not personally know of any.

Win-98se has two options during F-Disk partationing of the disk

Enable large disk support Yes/No

NO- You got limits. YES, Well,,, I have yet to find the limits and
I've partationed and formatted disks up to 160 Gig (That is a single
partation of 159.xx Gigs plus a bit for the drive's boot sector)

I'm sure that there is a limit,,, But I have yet to see it, Adcom shipps
drives of 200 Gig, formatted Fat32, one partation. I have installed a
brand new 120 Gig drive in an external shell and using win-98se
partation and formatted it 120 Gig, I have yet to try larger drives but
if I do I'm very sure it will work.
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On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:01:35 GMT, John in Detroit
<Blanked@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Figured it out.....
>
>General Kireiko wrote:
>> My statement regarding FAT32 paritions not being larger than 32GB is not
>> 100 percent correct. The 32GB limit is a Microsoft legacy issue. The
>> disk tools supplied with Win9x are still based on 16-bit DOS, so they can
>> only create partions up to 32GB. There are thrid party tools available
>> which will create FAT32 partitions greater than 32 GB which can also be read
>> by Win98. I do not personally know of any.
>
>Win-98se has two options during F-Disk partationing of the disk
>
>Enable large disk support Yes/No
>
>NO- You got limits. YES, Well,,, I have yet to find the limits and
>I've partationed and formatted disks up to 160 Gig (That is a single
>partation of 159.xx Gigs plus a bit for the drive's boot sector)
>

I have used FDISK to partition several 40GB-120GB drives as well as
one 250GB.

>I'm sure that there is a limit,,,

It's probably 2TB (2048GB), the largest drive that Windows can handle
(the limit for 32-bit sector pointers).

> But I have yet to see it, Adcom shipps
>drives of 200 Gig, formatted Fat32, one partation. I have installed a
>brand new 120 Gig drive in an external shell and using win-98se
>partation and formatted it 120 Gig, I have yet to try larger drives but
>if I do I'm very sure it will work.

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