Can I use a 180gig harddrive on Windows 98?

[TygGer]

I want to upgrade to just one hard drive on my older pc running Win98. Can I use a 180gig hard drive?

THanks!

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

Someone correct me if I am wrong but the maximum volume size that Windows 98 can create is 127 GB using FAT32 formating. So you will have to split this drive up into at least two partitions.

You may also want to check to see if your BIOS will support this large of a drive, especially if you are using an older computer.

Hope this helps.

BSR

 

[sak]

i dont know exactly how OS handles partioning..what i thought is that fat32 cant go over 4GB or is that FAT..

in anycase ur bios has to support a big drive like too.. so check to see if u have a bios upgrade that has support for drives bigger than 137GB.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

what i thought is that fat32 cant go over 4GB or is that FAT.

FAT32 can't do bigger than 4GB file size..

 

[bacillus]

any partition size over 32,768 MB in win98 puts your cluster size to 32 KB which is quite wasteful