Kelly and others, The MS web site, www.microsoft.com, and especially doing searches on the various OSs provides a WIDE range of info, especially with regard to attributes of each OS as well as how to have multiple OSs on the same hard drive.
Since much of what has become XP is based on 2K, many of the articles dealing with XP refer also to 2K I found out. This whole issue of hard drive and partition size maximums seem to fall into this whole issue. A very excellent article is "Choosing between NTFS, FAT, and FAT32", which in turn leads to further articles, which also lead to further articles (seems you can find out just about every single technical bit of info about any of the OSs that Microsoft has/is putting out.) The major thing this article shows is the differences between using various file systems, especially with regard to the issue of drive and partition sizes. Other articles deal with multibooting to different OSs on the same hard drive, and how to accomplish, and so forth. In particular, the FAT32 issue is that you can only format a partition that is a max of 32 Gig while you can format in NTFS as you read. BUT, what is more interesting is that if you formated the partition in Dos or Win98, there is no restriction on partition size that the OS can access. Ralph Kelly Younger wrote: > > Barry Aronson wrote: > > > > Hello members! A couple of weeks ago i submitted a post about purchasing a > > massive storage drive 120 GBs to be exact, external USB 2.0/1.1. I have > > been awaiting a response from Soltek the manufacturer of my motherboard to > > find out if it would recognize in the most current BIOS a 102 GB drive. I > > got my answer this morning. According to them it will ONLY recognize a > > drive up to 32 GBs. > > According to page 4 of the WIN XP "Start Here" booklet that comes with > the XP CD, FAT 32 only recognizes hard drives up to 32GB. Perhaps you > need to switch to NTFS, which supports up to 2TB. The problem might be > with the OS and not the motherboard. > -- > Kelly Younger ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
