largest NTFS, FAT16 partitions in NT4?

[Cosmic_Horror]

i am pretty sure that FAT16 is limited to 2Gb partitions? (or is it 4Gb)? but can i make one large NTFS partition in win NT4?

thanks

 

[SUOrangeman]

2GB of FAT during install, 4GB of FAT once the system is up and running. You can also make larger NTFS partitions ... after the OS is up and running. You can only make 4GB max NTFS partitions during install (because they will be FAT and then *converted* to NTFS).

-SUO

Trying to clear up my mis-information.

 

[Halz]

I am pretty sure that the largest partition you can have in NTFS is 2TB, it should be the same for FAT16/32. (I think, never bothered to try.. )

 

[jsm]

I actually think the size limit of NTFS is 16 exabytes.

I don't know about FAT32 or VFAT, though. I believe FAT16 is roughly 2 gigs.

 

[Cyph3r]

FAT16 is limited to 2 gig's and that is the MAXIMUM size partition you will be able to create during Windows NT 4.0 installation. Once the system is running, you can create a very large NTFS partition, the last time I THOUGHT about it, it was about 4 TeraBytes..

On the other hand, FAT32 allows for a considerably larger partition size than FAT16, so while installing Windows 2000, you can create a fairly large partition and then convert it to NTFS without any problems..

Regards

 

[JackBurton]

FAT has a theoritical limit of 4GB but your not going to be able to make larger partitions than 2GB on it. When you FDISK more than ~67GB and use FAT32, it will show the difference between ~67GB and what your actual size of your HD size (ie 80GB HD, 67 - 80 = 13GB showing as partition size). Windows95(latest release),98,2000 should show teh entire drive size though. As for NT/2000 hard disk limitation, don't worry about it, your not going to reach it any time soon. The max ram is 4GB and 16EB (Exabytes) of hard disk space.

 

[JackBurton]

Sorry, I know the MAX amount of memory NT can use is 4GB but I'm not sure about 2000, but it has to be more than 4GB.