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Largest Possible Partition in Win98 SE?
Name: Dave Date: January 19, 2002 at 04:07:45 Pacific
Comment:
What is the largest size FAT-32 formatted partition that Win98 SE can see?
What is the largest partition size that Win98 SE fdisk can create?
Name: Ken Date: January 19, 2002 at 04:36:39 Pacific
Reply:
I think it is 2 terabytes but not sure....
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Response Number 2
Name: p2p Date: January 19, 2002 at 04:48:19 Pacific
Reply:
Using FAT32, the maximum size partition allowed is 2,047 GB (2 TeraBytes)
A Knowledge Base article says that the version of FDISK distributed with Win98 and Win98SE will not correctly report the size of disks larger than 64 Gb. A patch is available for download that corrects this (see Q263044 for details).
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Response Number 3
Name: p2p Date: January 19, 2002 at 04:53:31 Pacific
Name: Derf Date: January 19, 2002 at 13:21:18 Pacific
Reply:
Did I fall asleep in class again???????
Maybe I don't understand the question but I've had FAT 32 Win98 partitions of 40 GB. Defrag seems to have trouble with PRIMARY partitions of greater than 8 GB though.
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