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Maximum hard drive size supported?
Name: philipina Date: April 14, 2006 at 03:06:56 Pacific OS: Win98 CPU/Ram: 512 Product: 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?
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: April 14, 2006 at 05:27:18 Pacific
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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Name: cnf Date: April 14, 2006 at 06:05:59 Pacific
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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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