2 Gig Hard Drive partitions??

[old.Nitefoll]

Need a bit of advice.

I'm about to totally rebuild one of my systems and am installing a brand new 40Gig Hard Drive. (woohoo I hear you cry)

I seem to recall ages ago that Windows 9X/Me had major problems with Hard Drive partions over 2 Gig.

Does anyone know if this is still the case?

Or, can Partitions now be any size I want??

Or, does anyone know of any obvious problems with having a number of larger hard drive partitions (i.e. 4 x 10 Gig)??

Cheers

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Umm...I've never hard anything about this, but you dont get a OS not cable of handling 2+gig partitions now days.

There are no problems with large numbers of partitions, as you get 'partitions with a partition' when you go above 4. Which is perfectly normal.

 

[old.Kez]

Use a decent variant of Windows. 9X/ME are both poor examples.

 

[Summo]

Yes. Use 2000 or XP. I excrete Windows 9x every morning, before work.

For a 40GB drive you'd benefit from NTFS.

 

[old.Kez]

That must be painful, acquire "All Bran" :/

ps. Stop following up my posts, its angering to see new threads to respond to.

 

[Summo]

Yeah, that'd make me stop.

Um... so, something about Windows, then. Um... FAT32. Not designed for large drives.... um... nyah, forget it.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Pah, use Linux ye h00r

 

[Summo]

Yeah, that'd be easier.

 

[bigbb]

well I only just upgraded to win2k after having since it's release on cd. I just couldn't be arsed

It said to meh, NTFS is friendly and condenses files into iddy biddy sizes. Also, I found I have 20meg more ram to play with thanks to Wink2k, oh what to do, what to do!.

I dunno what it means, but I can tell you that NTFS sounds much better than FAT32.

OoO dis wememinds me, I used to live in a place and der was a kebab shop named 'Mega Bite', gawd what a innovative and splendicious name.

Note: Don't ask why dis has come up. I am "unique"/"wierd" individual and have yet to grasp the concept of social acceptance.

^wasn't this an interesting post?

 

[Summo]

If you're interested you can read all abaat it.

 

[bigbb]

golly. More than 20words, lemme put my glasses on.

 

[bigbb]

ahh splendid!

NTFS supports Unicode, and natively supports long file names.

Long file names, yay! I have set myself the challenge of creating the longest filename in the world/town

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Ext2(and also ext3 while we're at it) pwns j00.

 

[bigbb]

Support for large hard disks, with a theoretical limit of 16 ExaBytes, and up to 2 TeraBytes (TB).

OoO, dis is tight with me old 8.6gig then.

 

[Summo]

Filenames can only have a maximum of 255 characters.

/note to self: Shut up, you boring turd.

 

[bigbb]

bah, dats just silleh, what if your filename is 256 characters, have they not considered this situation!?


shock horror: in relation to the thread topic

*gasps*

If you need to format a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB, you will need to do it under Windows 98/SE/ME.

Use FAT32 for use on partitions that are 2 GB or larger. If you choose to format using FAT during Win2K/XP Setup and your partition is greater than 2 GB, Setup automatically formats it as FAT32.

 

[Wij]

2 gig was for FAT not FAT32. 98 can handle > 2gig fine with FAT32.

 

[old.Nitefoll]

Originally posted by Wij
2 gig was for FAT not FAT32. 98 can handle > 2gig fine with FAT32.

Yep, that's the answer I was looking for, I thought it was something along the lines of the file system used, and you've answered my questions.

Cheers Eveyone

 

[old.?]

kebab shop named 'Mega Bite',

There is a kebab shop near me called Mega Bite in Stretford

 

[bigbb]

mine was in Peterborough so dont wowwy.

 

[xane]

I have a single partition FAT32 27GB drive running fine under Windows 98SE.

You should check your BIOS though, I did hear of certain BIOS'es not being happy with 32GB or more.

 

[Will]

I've got a 40GB HDD with 4 10GB partitions. Sandra Sisoft doesn't seem very impressed with them, but it seems to run fine.