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Maximum hard drive size supported?
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Name: philipina
Date: April 14, 2006 at 03:06:56 Pacific
Subject: Maximum hard drive size supported?OS: Win98CPU/Ram: 512Manufacturer/Model: Acer |
Comment: Hello, I have an old PC with Win98 (I don't know which version exactly but it supports USB...).
Actually I have an hard drive of 40Gb (2 partitions of 20Gb) and I would like to replace it.
I would like to know what can be the limitation regarding Win98.
Do I have to take care about a maximum size for a partition? Thank in advance for your answers. Philipin
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Response Number 1
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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: April 14, 2006 at 05:27:18 Pacific
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Reply: w98 is limited to about 63GB, but the newer fdisk will go to about 137GB. You need to get the specs on your mobo BIOS because that may limit your HD size, regardless of OS.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Response Number 2
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Name: cnf
Date: April 14, 2006 at 06:05:59 Pacific
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Reply: Hi,
I've found this thread, it's about hard drive and partition size.
http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/42454.html
and read this one too:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310525
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