Virginia, you can format the drive into however many partitions you want. FAT16 has many limits as to large the partition can get which is why FAT32 is better suited to large hard drives up to about 130 gigs. If the utilities have problems with win98, there should not be any problems with the FAT32 table. Do you use many of these said utilities?
I've had at one time, eight separate operating systems on one computer and each had it's own file system too (win95a, 98, NT4, Linux, BeOS, DOS 6, OS/2, Solaris 7) and there was no conflicts, especially since this was all on one hard drive. I used the Ranish partition manager for that work http://www.ranish.com/part/. Peter Kaulback In the hour of 07:42 AM 2/7/2002 +0000, Virginia Da Costa spoke this: >On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:10:14 -0500 Peter Kaulback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >Virginia, windows98 must be on the primary drive (or the first/master > >drive) and you can format the drive as FAT32 to make the best use of > >space. > >Thanks for your advice Peter! If I format the drive as FAT32, can I still >partition it into smaller units? I don't know why, but I got the impression >it had to remain as one partition. > >Fdisk gives a warning about FAT32 formatting not allowing Windows to see >other OSs or other OSs to see Windows, and also about older FAT16 utilities >not working on FAT32. Which is why I also format to FAT16. > >What do listers feel about this? > >Virginia ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
