Kyle, Copying files should not be an issue, but the FAT32 file system doesn't handle errors as well as ntfs does, so you may be more prone to drive errors. It's be best to get off 98 if you can and move to XP if the box can handle it.
It looks like Win98 scandisk has issues with large fat32 partitions, putting you at a max volume of 127 GB that can be fixed by scandisk. if you go bigger you can't use scandisk to recover.: "The ScanDisk tool included with Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98 is a 16-bit program. Such programs have a single memory block maximum allocation size of 16 MB less 64 KB. Therefore, The Windows 95 or Windows 98 ScanDisk tool cannot process volumes using the FAT32 file system that have a FAT larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size. A FAT entry on a volume using the FAT32 file system uses 4 bytes, so ScanDisk cannot process the FAT on a volume using the FAT32 file system that defines more than 4,177,920 clusters (including the two reserved clusters). Including the FATs themselves, * this works out, at the maximum of 32 KB per cluster, to a volume size of 127.53 gigabytes (GB). *" see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006/en-us (limitations of fat32) also see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154997/en-us (description thereof) Regards, Dan -- dwc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20634 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
