At 17:50 9/11/2002 -0700, you wrote: >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
Gang! I am gratified to see so much discussion come from my simple request for input as to my decision on purchasing a massive storage drive or relent and obtain a CD-RW. The information was interesting and the comparisons to Windows XP was borderline fascinating BUT, and this is a big BUT none of it is new to me and did not clarify the fact that without a BIOS extension my motherboard will ONLY be able to use a HDD connected to it up to 32GBs. My original question was with my 4 year old motherboard and original BIOS will my existing system be able to utilize an entire 120 GB external USB 2.0/1.1 HDD? I was talking about entire storage space not individual partitions. Because of space requirements presently I can not utilize NTFS and of course I have a C drive that has Windows 98SE on it so without a Third Party Application that will allow me to navigate back and forth between partitions with out data confusion. If i purchase a massive storage drive i can, and this is where partition info comes in handy, can use 1 or more and convert to NTFS while leaving my other HDD all FAT32. So you see IF i buy it and it does not get full storage capability then it was a waste of time and money. So thank you all for your inputs and I hope i clarified what it was i wanted to know.. Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= 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 =====================================================
