Formating/Partitioning a big HDD for Win98

[AlexC]

I'm planning on putting a 60 Gig HDD in a new Win98 machine I'm building. Currently, the 6 Gig drive I have is broken into three 2 Gig partitions, in an attempt to keep the cluster sizes reasonable. Any advice with a drive this big? Should I stick to ~2 Gig partitions?

 

[DeeK]

<< I'm planning on putting a 60 Gig HDD in a new Win98 machine I'm building. Currently, the 6 Gig drive I have is broken into three 2 Gig partitions, in an attempt to keep the cluster sizes reasonable. Any advice with a drive this big? Should I stick to ~2 Gig partitions? >>


You'd run out of drive letters if you used 2GB partitions. There's not much choice for avoiding large clusters with FAT32 on a 60GB drive. With 16kB clusters, you shouldn't lose a terribly large amount of slack space. You'll get 16kB clusters if you split it into two 30GB partitions. Four 15GB partitions will create 8kB clusters.