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Win 98SE & Hard Drives
Posted: 2006-01-13 07:21pm
by Kitsune
Does anyone know if there is a logic limit on the size of hard drives with Windows 98SE?
Posted: 2006-01-13 08:01pm
by atg
I think the limit is something like 127-137GB IF the drive has been formatted in another machine. Otherwise the limit of the built in partitioner is about 64GB.
That's going off memory but I think there's some hacks to allow more disk space, so I'll get back to you on that.
Posted: 2006-01-13 08:08pm
by atg
Did some checking. The theoretical limit for the FAT32 filesystem used by Win98SE is 8 terabytes. However the partitioner only works up to 64GB. By formatting in another machine it can be above that.
Remember that some motherboards have a limit of 137GB (127GB useable).
Hope that helps
Posted: 2006-01-13 09:09pm
by Kitsune
The Motherboard is pretty new.....I am running a 2.6 GHz but just have not upgraded to windows 2000 or XP yet.