How big of a fat32 HD partition can Win2k reconize?

[neil]

I just bought a 60gb Deskstar, and i was wondering if i could use the whole HD as one partition in win2k.


Also what is the HD partition size limit in win98se?

 

[MGMorden]

I heard somewhere that FAT32 really goes into the gutter over 40gb, so you don't want to run a partition over that. If I were you I'd put NTFS on there. Even if you're dual booting I'd slice into like two 30gb partitions, (one FAT32 for Win98 and another NTFS for win2k).

 

[Nitsuj]

Also after 8GB you are actually using FAT32x which has lager 8k clusters instead of the normal 4k clusters you get with FAT32 on a 8GB or smaller partition.

 

[Brazen]

I agree with MGM. And if you are only using Win2k, just partition the whole thing in NTFS. If you really want to know what the limit on FAT32 partitions is, I believe there is information on that in the Win2k manual, if you have a manual.

 

[potz]

i'm using fat32 with a 50gig partition on my 60gig hd and sometimes it'll just be painfully slow. i would change to ntfs but last time my partition got hosed and i couldn't get anything to recover the data.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Win2K won't let you create/format a FAT32 volume over 32GB. You'll have to use something non-native (say, PartitionMagic or Win9x/DOS) to create such a volume.

-SUO

 

[Suppafly]

ive seen some raids that were like 75gig but when they added another drive to the array to make it 125gig win2k refused to format it to fat32.. just try and format it in windows.. itll bitch if it doesnt like it.