Limitation are come from MS-DOS and not really Windows 98 SE. Using FAT16 (If you don't specify in FDISK you want large partition) you can format partition of a size a few less than 4 GB. With cluster size = 64Kb - FAT 16 is 2^16 cluster - Partition size is : 4 GB.
After this, you may encounter some BIOS limitation on few machines (if it's very very old). FAT 12 is only used on floppies. The limitation of FAT 12 is for partition up to 256 MB FAT32 (is you said to FDISK you want large partition) is for partition up to ( 2^28 * 4K !! ) = 8 GB. So the limitation is 4 GB in FAT16 with cluster of 64 KB ( not recommended ) And 8 GB in FAT32 with 4K Clusters and up to 32GB. But be carefull a FAT32 partition isn't recoverable with an MS-DOS floppy disk. Jimmy. http://www.jadiam.org Ah, I see. Does it allow for, say, a 40GB hard drive to be seen as several smaller partitions by Windows 98SE, say 5 x 8GB partitions? As 40GB drives seem to be the smallest drives around now (looking at eBuyer site anyway) - at 25 pounds very cheap, it seems silly to put a 40GB drive on a Win98SE machine if it will only see a few GB and the rest goes to waste. Sorry to persist in asking, it's a long time since I last used Win98SE in anger! (All this just to help him put QLay on a cheap old PC to give it some life, although it saves it going to landfill and will make a perfectly good "QL" even if leaves something to be desired as a PC!) -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
