Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 12:01:34 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Maximum size of a fat16 partition
At 08:35 PM 3/08/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 22:38:07 -0500 >From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Maximum size of a fat16 partition > >I presently have Win98 in 6 gigs using fat32. I would like to reduce >it to 4 gigs and use fat16. When I try to change it my resizer gives >me a warning message 'only for NT/2000/XP'. How large can a fat16 >partition be under Win98 and would DR-Dos 7.03 or PC-DOS 7 have >troubles seeing a 4 gig partition? The minmum size I can make it is >2580 according to the resizer. I would have to make it larger because >windows uses alot of disk space. I am using Bootit. TIA WinNT/2k/XP can see 4 gig FAT16 partitions because they can see the larger cluster sizes where WinME/Win9x/DOS can't for reasons hardcoded into io.sys (which DOS/Win9x/ME still use but which NT/2k/XP don't). Why do you want to go to FAT16 anyway? FAT16 partitions bigger than about a gig or so tend to have excessive block sizes and therefore waste a lot of space due to the lack of block suballocation. 4 gig FAT16 partitions are even worse for this. FAT32 can be read by virtually anything after Win95OSR2 (including boot disks and various flavours of Unix). - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
