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| 347113 | 2005-04-21 04:38:00 | I'm the man, haha. Was going to have to mock you if you put effort into making a 200mb USB hdd. And good luck to making a large partition to work with win98. I never really tried it, but heard it can be done. Hopefully you have usb 2 drivers that are compatible with the win 98 machine, and hopefully its usb 2 otherwise transferring anything over 1gb will be a nightmare if you're in a hurry. smokenz |
smokenz (7599) | ||
| 347114 | 2005-04-21 04:57:00 | Fdisk will easily handle a partition over 32GB, even the standard Fdisk in Win9x/ME. But it will do no harm to download the one Foxy is suggesting Even if it doesn't, just create a 32GB drive, and then use something like Partition magic to expand the drive all the way to 200 later :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 347115 | 2005-04-21 04:59:00 | Mythix, it cant be expanded... the FAT32 limit is 137GB. AFAIK, NTFS has one that is much much larger though. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 347116 | 2005-04-21 05:04:00 | Since the external HDD will mainly be used with W2k and XP machines, I've decided to make a 120Gb partition in NTFS and the rest in a FAT32 partition for the 98SE machine. Plenty there for backups. Just have to remember if I have anything to be t'ferred to 98SE machine, to put it in the FAT32 folder ! Cheers all CJ |
cjknight (7938) | ||
| 347117 | 2005-04-21 05:08:00 | Geez at me.. getting my file systems all mixed up You are right Chilling.... FAT32 limit of 137GB NTFS4 ...2 terabytes NTFS5 ...2 exabytes I was studying this today at course too lol :blush: |
Myth (110) | ||
| 347118 | 2005-04-21 05:42:00 | I use reiser4 so these dont apply to me ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 347119 | 2005-04-21 05:46:00 | well i made an ass of my self, sorry :blush: but there was some thing about a 32Gb limit and how it would see it or something :o thanks for correcting me, my apologies. |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 347120 | 2005-04-21 05:51:00 | but there was some thing about a 32Gb limit and how it would see it or something Perhaps you were thinking of Windows XP's 32GB limitation on FAT32 drives. Win XP won't let you create partitions greater than 32GB unless they are NTFS partitions. Oh, and your disclaimer prevented you from making an ass of yourself. ;) |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 347121 | 2005-04-21 05:52:00 | Been there, made the same assumption before about FAT32... Im sure everybody has done it at some time or another :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 347122 | 2005-04-21 06:00:00 | Perhaps you were thinking of Windows XP's 32GB limitation on FAT32 drives. Win XP won't let you create partitions greater than 32GB unless they are NTFS partitions. it could have been that.... oh well, its sorted now :thumbs: |
Prescott (11) | ||
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