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Howdy!
"Muerte" wrote in message ... I have always been confused about this. I know there is some type of 2GB limit and then there is a cylinder limit of some type. I made mine 2GB in size and now it is pretty much full. I will be upgrading to XP Pro and will need more room. The 2G limit was done away with with Win95 OSR2. From there, it was a 1024 cylinder limit for some BIOSes and some OSes (WinNT 4.0 for instance), but the actual SIZE limit was pretty much gone. For instance, I have a 80G C: on this machine I boot from (Win2K Server). I have been installing programs to a different partition for some time now. It seems that all programs default to installing on C. Does it depend on the file system (FAT/FAT32/NTFS)? I will probably be installing multiple OS if that makes a difference. I have Partition Magic and can make the partition bigger and convert it to a different file system. It rather does - you need to find what you need for each OS first. I read an article in a magazine about installing HD's and they made the C partition 7GB in size using I belive FAT32. There's reasons to, and reasons not to. What OS are you running? If Win9X, then it's best to keep the cluster size to 4K so that swap file access is as fast as possible. OTOH, if you get over about 4 million clusters (right at 16G), SCANDISK and DEFRAG die. Then again, with NTFS (as in WinNT class OSes), 4K allocation units and it doesn't matter HOW big the hard disk is ... RwP |
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Each file system has a limit. FAT16 maxes out at 2 GB. I think FAT32's
limit is 8GB. I think NTFS has one, but I don't know what it is. A buddy of mine has a 120GB drive with one partition. |
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I've got 4 x 10GB FAT32 partitions.
- Dogbert stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: Each file system has a limit. FAT16 maxes out at 2 GB. I think FAT32's limit is 8GB. I think NTFS has one, but I don't know what it is. A buddy of mine has a 120GB drive with one partition. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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Some leisure reading...
http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0107.htm http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/...rchPart-c.html - Strontium stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: I've got 4 x 10GB FAT32 partitions. - Dogbert stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: Each file system has a limit. FAT16 maxes out at 2 GB. I think FAT32's limit is 8GB. I think NTFS has one, but I don't know what it is. A buddy of mine has a 120GB drive with one partition. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:09:57 GMT, "Dogbert" wrote:
Each file system has a limit. FAT16 maxes out at 2 GB. I think FAT32's limit is 8GB. I think NTFS has one, but I don't know what it is. A buddy of mine has a 120GB drive with one partition. Fat32's limit is in the terabytes. There is a 64gb limit of Win98 fdisk, and a 32GB limit on what WinXP will partition and format as FAT32. Other limits are there which are BIOS induced/dependant |
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"Muerte" wrote in message ... I have always been confused about this. I know there is some type of 2GB limit and then there is a cylinder limit of some type. I made mine 2GB in size and now it is pretty much full. I will be upgrading to XP Pro and will need more room. I have been installing programs to a different partition for some time now. It seems that all programs default to installing on C. Does it depend on the file system (FAT/FAT32/NTFS)? I will probably be installing multiple OS if that makes a difference. I have Partition Magic and can make the partition bigger and convert it to a different file system. I read an article in a magazine about installing HD's and they made the C partition 7GB in size using I belive FAT32. Any help will be appreciated. If you know of an article on formatting on a website please let me know the URL. Thanks There are also ultilities that come with modern hard drives that circumvent OS partition limitations.I have Win 98 SE on a 80 GB hard drive (FAT32) It is all one partition (74 GB, the difference is due to hardware manufacturers measuring the size of a gigabyte differently then software engineer, it's a long boring story) Chaoticwhizz |
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Howdy!
"Dogbert" wrote in message ... Each file system has a limit. FAT16 maxes out at 2 GB. I think FAT32's limit is 8GB. I think NTFS has one, but I don't know what it is. A buddy of mine has a 120GB drive with one partition. FAT16 maxes out at 4G, but non-NT based OSes max out at 2G. FAT32 has a max of 128 terabytes. Yes, TERA bytes. NTFS is in the petabyte range. RwP |
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Per Microsoft, WinNT can have a FAT16 partition up to 4 GB, but
DOS/Win95/Win98 don't support over 2GB. FAT32 can support up to 4 TB, but Win2000 and WinXP only support FAT32 partitions up to 32 GB in size. What the file type supports isn't as important as what the OS suopports. |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:57:45 -0400, GrassHoppit
wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:31:36 GMT, "Dogbert" spewed forth: Per Microsoft, WinNT can have a FAT16 partition up to 4 GB, but DOS/Win95/Win98 don't support over 2GB. thats funny, i have a system right now with a 20GB harddrive running 98. Then it is fat32, not fat16. You snipped the part where he stated the huge capacity of FAT32, which 98 supports. This was to show the difference in how NT and 98 handle FAT16. |
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