Win98 Hard Drive support

[Wheezer]

Does windows 98 have a limitation on hard drive size?

I installed a 40gb but it only shows a capcity of 38?

My bios shows a 40.9gb capacity.

 

[guardfish]

Recently, I set up a PC and formatted two hard drives for a RAID0 configuration. I believe this space also includes the File Allocation Tables which take up space.

 

[corkyg]

The answer to your question is "No!"

That is caused by different ways of calculating drive and storage area size. Generous specs figure 1000 KB is one MB . . . when technically it takes 1024 KB The bigger the drive, the more disparate can be the size measurement. Your 38 is probably accurate technocally while the other is marketing hype, but still legal.

BTW . . . you asked the same question and got a similar answer in the Software forum. Multiple thread listings are a no-no on this forum. Consider yourself whipped with a wet noodle! 🙂

 

[GregANDTCH]

"That is caused by different ways of calculating drive and storage area size. Generous specs figure 1000 KB is one MB . . . when technically it takes 1024 KB The bigger the drive, the more disparate can be the size measurement. Your 38 is probably accurate technocally while the other is marketing hype, but still legal."

Yeah,
What HE said!😀

 

[ScrapSilicon]

😉 lol...GregANDTCH

 

[Warin]

It's not so much generous specs as it is ways of thinking.

Kilo=1000

As in 1 KILOmeter=1000 meters.

So the manufacturers rate the drives based on that spec.

But as you so adroitly pointed out, computers count 1024 bytes as a kilobyte, and so on.


Try having to explain this to almost every person who buys a computer from the shop you work at. I finally printed off a little explanation and packaged it in with every system