Hi Dilwyn, Limitation are come from MS-DOS and not really Windows 98 SE.
Using FAT16 (If you don't specify in FDISK you want large partition) you can format partition of a size a few less than 4 GB. With cluster size = 64Kb - FAT 16 is 2^16 cluster - Partition size is : 4 GB. After this, you may encounter some BIOS limitation on few machines (if it's very very old). FAT 12 is only used on floppies. The limitation of FAT 12 is for partition up to 256 MB FAT32 (is you said to FDISK you want large partition) is for partition up to ( 2^28 * 4K !! ) = 8 GB. So the limitation is 4 GB in FAT16 with cluster of 64 KB ( not recommended ) And 8 GB in FAT32 with 4K Clusters and up to 32GB. But be carefull a FAT32 partition isn't recoverable with an MS-DOS floppy disk. Jimmy. http://www.jadiam.org -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Dilwyn Jones Envoyé : lundi 19 février 2007 18:25 À : QL Users List Objet : [ql-users] win98se I'm trying to help someone put QLay onto a PC they've bought and need a reminder on what is the largest hard disk Win98SE can format - is it 6GB, 20GB or what? WinXP can of course handle big disks, but from memory I seem to remember than Win98SE can't do NTFS format, for example - this person wants to install a new hard disk before he puts his emulator on and needs advice on what is the largest capacity of hard disk it can format. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
