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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Disks / File System / April 2004Never See 200
Win98 can not see a drive larger than 137 Gbytes. Even by partitioning it to 2-100MB partitions, I still will not be able to use the 200MB drive? So the max partition will be based on 137 Gbytes? In other words can I partition my 200 gbyte HD into partitions and get full capacity usage. Example-- 2-100MB partitions 4-50MB partitions Win98 will see that right? >Win98 can not see a drive larger than 137 Gbytes. Even by >partitioning it to 2-100MB partitions, I still will not be [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Win98 will see that right? The maximum *usable* partition size for FAT32 under Windows 98/98SE/2000/XP is 128 binary gigabytes (137 billion bytes). This is because disk utilities such as Scandisk and Defrag cannot work with partitions that have more than 4.1 million total clusters. And the maximum usable cluster size with FAT32 is 32K. 4.1 million clusters at 32K each equals 128 binary gigabytes. Larger drives must be partioned into two or more partitions such that no one partition exceeds 128 binary gigabytes. Hope this explains the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada  SignatureMicrosoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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