80GB Seagate in FAT32

[jedidrw]

I just bough a 80GB Seagate Barracuda ATA IV and I am having trouble getting Win98's Fdisk to even get the correct size on it. It comes to about 10GB. Not even close the specs by Microsoft to get 33GB Partitions. I can get it in WinXP to be the full amount but I dont want NTFS as I want to dual Boot Win98 and XP. I have succesfully used Seagates software to make a 70GB and 10GB Partitions but I dont like the Boot menu it has in the Startup (Take up a few seconds to get past it) Anyone know of a way to get both partitions in those sizes with giving up fast boot times? If so let me know.

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Jombo]

I would use partition magic, prob versions 5.0 or higher, they would support NTFS partition used in Win 2K or XP. (I'm still stuck at version 4.0, so i don't have all the details on that one.. =\

one thing i'm wondering though, does XP force you to put up a NTFS partition? i'd figure when you install XP, you get the option of turning it over to NTFS or not. (still stuck in the world of Win 2K)
in a dual boot setting, having an NTFS partition often becomes a bigger pain in the butt than benefits from it. but it really is your personal pref..
you might want to do a 15 to 20 gig per OS and keep a 40 - 50 gig for mp3s and such as a shared drive.
with Partition magic tho, you can change the partition size "on the fly" w/out messing w/ the data, so that just maybe your best bet.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Windows FastFAT driver for the NT kernel (Win2k+XP) has a little known "feature" added to it that makes it not able to format FAT drives over 32GB. It can read+write just fine, but not format.

Use WinXP to create the partition, then Win98 to format it.