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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Disks / File System / May 2004Max Hard Drive Size Windows 98SE Supports
Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows 98SE supports, based solely on the operating system. Ryan >Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows >98SE supports, based solely on the operating system. > >Ryan The maximum usable hard drive partition size under Windows 98 SE is 128 binary gigabytes (2^30 or 137 billion bytes). That gives a partition with a 32K cluster size and with 4.1 million total clusters. Scandisk and Defrag will not work with larger partitions than this. Disks larger than this, if they are supported by the hardware, must be partitioned into two or more drives so that no single drive is larger than 128 binary gigabytes. Hope this is the information you were looking for. 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." >>Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows >>98SE supports, based solely on the operating system. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada What is the largest drive Windows 98SE can access over a share from another machine running server software capable of using bigger disks? SignatureThe e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form che...@prodigy.net. >What is the largest drive Windows 98SE can access over a share from >another machine running server software capable of using bigger disks? Whatever the other machine will support. All disk access to a shared drive is handled by the machine that the drive is physically located in. For example, even though Windows 98 cannot read or write to NTFS drives it has no problems whatever accessing NTFS drives over a network, provided of course that the machine the drive is installed in can access them. 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." >>What is the largest drive Windows 98SE can access over a share from >>another machine running server software capable of using bigger disks? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada That's what I thought, but I appreciate the confirmation. I guess that's why my Win98SE machine has never had any problem accessing big drives served via Samba. SignatureThe e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form che...@prodigy.net. Posting this a little late but hope it helps. The Win98-SE system will only utalize 68Gig unless you have already made a start up floppy with the large disk fix installed to it. >-----Original Message----- > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada |
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