Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 00:38:25 -0500 From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Maximum size of a fat16 partition
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:05:08 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 12:01:34 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Maximum size of a fat16 partition > >At 08:35 PM 3/08/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 22:38:07 -0500 >>From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Maximum size of a fat16 partition >> >>I presently have Win98 in 6 gigs using fat32. I would like to reduce >>it to 4 gigs and use fat16. When I try to change it my resizer gives >>me a warning message 'only for NT/2000/XP'. How large can a fat16 >>partition be under Win98 and would DR-Dos 7.03 or PC-DOS 7 have >>troubles seeing a 4 gig partition? The minmum size I can make it is >>2580 according to the resizer. I would have to make it larger because >>windows uses alot of disk space. I am using Bootit. TIA > >WinNT/2k/XP can see 4 gig FAT16 partitions because they can see the larger >cluster sizes where WinME/Win9x/DOS can't for reasons hardcoded into io.sys >(which DOS/Win9x/ME still use but which NT/2k/XP don't). Why do you want to >go to FAT16 anyway? FAT16 partitions bigger than about a gig or so tend to >have excessive block sizes and therefore waste a lot of space due to the >lack of block suballocation. 4 gig FAT16 partitions are even worse for >this. FAT32 can be read by virtually anything after Win95OSR2 (including >boot disks and various flavours of Unix). > > >- Raymond > I want to boot DOS. Dr-Dos 7.03 can't run off a fat32 drive. I don't know if PC-Dos 7 can but I don't think so. John ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
