Max Hard Drive Size Windows 98SE Supports

[Ryan]

Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows
98SE supports, based solely on the operating system.

Ryan

[Ron Martell]

"Ryan" > wrote:

>Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows
>98SE supports, based solely on the operating system.
>
>Ryan

The maximum usable hard drive partition size under Windows 98 SE is
128 binary gigabytes (2^30 or 137 billion bytes). That gives a
partition with a 32K cluster size and with 4.1 million total clusters.

Scandisk and Defrag will not work with larger partitions than this.

Disks larger than this, if they are supported by the hardware, must be
partitioned into two or more drives so that no single drive is larger
than 128 binary gigabytes.

Hope this is the information you were looking for.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[CJT]

Ron Martell wrote:

> "Ryan" > wrote:
>
>
>>Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows
>>98SE supports, based solely on the operating system.
>>
>>Ryan
>
>
> The maximum usable hard drive partition size under Windows 98 SE is
> 128 binary gigabytes (2^30 or 137 billion bytes). That gives a
> partition with a 32K cluster size and with 4.1 million total clusters.
>
> Scandisk and Defrag will not work with larger partitions than this.
>
> Disks larger than this, if they are supported by the hardware, must be
> partitioned into two or more drives so that no single drive is larger
> than 128 binary gigabytes.
>
> Hope this is the information you were looking for.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

What is the largest drive Windows 98SE can access over a share from
another machine running server software capable of using bigger disks?

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[Ron Martell]

CJT > wrote:

>What is the largest drive Windows 98SE can access over a share from
>another machine running server software capable of using bigger disks?

Whatever the other machine will support.

All disk access to a shared drive is handled by the machine that the
drive is physically located in.

For example, even though Windows 98 cannot read or write to NTFS
drives it has no problems whatever accessing NTFS drives over a
network, provided of course that the machine the drive is installed in
can access them.

Hope this explains the situation.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[CJT]

Ron Martell wrote:

> CJT > wrote:
>
>
>>What is the largest drive Windows 98SE can access over a share from
>>another machine running server software capable of using bigger disks?
>
>
> Whatever the other machine will support.
>
> All disk access to a shared drive is handled by the machine that the
> drive is physically located in.
>
> For example, even though Windows 98 cannot read or write to NTFS
> drives it has no problems whatever accessing NTFS drives over a
> network, provided of course that the machine the drive is installed in
> can access them.
>
> Hope this explains the situation.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

That's what I thought, but I appreciate the confirmation.

I guess that's why my Win98SE machine has never had any problem
accessing big drives served via Samba.

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[Greg]

Posting this a little late but hope it helps.
The Win98-SE system will only utalize 68Gig
unless you have already made a start up floppy
with the large disk fix installed to it.
>-----Original Message-----
>"Ryan" > wrote:
>
>>Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows
>>98SE supports, based solely on the operating system.
>>
>>Ryan
>
>The maximum usable hard drive partition size under
Windows 98 SE is
>128 binary gigabytes (2^30 or 137 billion bytes). That
gives a
>partition with a 32K cluster size and with 4.1 million
total clusters.
>
>Scandisk and Defrag will not work with larger partitions
than this.
>
>Disks larger than this, if they are supported by the
hardware, must be
>partitioned into two or more drives so that no single
drive is larger
>than 128 binary gigabytes.
>
>Hope this is the information you were looking for.
>
>Good luck
>
>
>Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
>--
>Microsoft MVP
>On-Line Help Computer Service
>http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
>"The reason computer chips are so small is computers
don't eat much."
>.
>