IIRC WD includes an install disk that walks you through the partitioning process. It won't allow a partition that is over the limit. Admittedly, this was done several years ago in WIN98, using a 40GB WD drive. Also, it was a P2, Socket A Pentium. (Ithink ;-( )
Denny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] win98se > 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 > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
