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Windows 98 - Largest Hard Drive support is?

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Night201

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What's the maximum partition limit size in GB for Windows 98? Is it 32GB or can you go higher? I might be getting it mixed up with Windows 95
 
It's definitely higher than 32GB, because I use Win98 and have a 60GB drive in one partition. According to this page on Microsoft's website, the limit for Win98 using FAT32 is 127.53 GB.
 


<< The limit is 127GB. >>



Is ATA133 not supported under fat32? The Maxtor site shows win98 as a supported OS for the ATA133 expansion card which would increase the partition size to well above 128GB.
 
Please don't quote me on this, but I believe formatting a hard drive and a controller addressing the capacity are different things.

The partition size is a limitation of the formatting standard.

The controller can address greater capacity, but the partitions won't be larger than 127.53 GB in FAT32.
 
"Is ATA133 not supported under fat32? The Maxtor site shows win98 as a supported OS for the ATA133 expansion card which would increase the partition size to well above 128GB. "

I think brinstar117 is right,
it doesn't matter what controller you use.
The limit is because of "Fat32".
The controller just lets you use larger Hard drives.
"ATA133" is actually just a term used to say
it has a faster possible data transfer rate than an ATA66 or ATA100
controller. YMMV

 
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