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Answer» FAT 32 with the "newer" version of FDISK (introduced with ME) will support partitions up to 64Gb.Quote from: ADG on September 01, 2009, 04:27:08 PM FAT 32 with the "newer" version of FDISK (introduced with ME) will support partitions up to 64Gb. yes,but that's a boot disk made with windows, Smeezer said "Dos boot disk" either way it doesn't quite make it to the 1TB requirement anyway.You know, it's been a long time since I used Fdisk so I wanted to check the info I posted above and I was mistaken. Apparently you can go to 2Tb, not 64Gb (not sure where I came up with that number). Anyway, here's the MS link I found just now: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867 - sorry for the confusion on my part. I'm not trying to take anyone's "side" here or say someone is right and someone is wrong - just trying to post the correct info in the thread. Quote On Windows 95/98, due to the version of Microsoft's SCANDISK utility included with these operating systems being a 16-bit application, the FAT structure is not allowed to grow beyond around 4.2 million (< 222) clusters, placing the volume limit at 127.53 GB.[14] A limitation in original versions of Windows 98/98SE's Fdisk utility causes it to incorrectly report disk SIZES over 64 GB.[15] A corrected version is available from Microsoft, but it cannot partition drives larger than 512GB [16]. A limitation of 32 GB applies to the Windows 2000/XP installation program and filesystem creation tool. [17] However, both systems can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size. This limitation is by design and according to Microsoft was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient.[14][18] This limitation can be bypassed by using third-party formatting utilities.[19] Windows Me supports the FAT32 file system without any limits.[20] However, similarly to Windows 95/98/98SE there is no native support for 48-bit LBA in Windows ME, meaning that the maximum disk size for ATA disks is 127.6 GB, the maximum size of an ATA disk using the previous long-standard 28-bit LBA. so while FAT32 supports partition sizes up to 2TB, since even Windows ME has no native support for 48-bit LBA the disk size is limited to 127.6GB, the limit of 28-bit LBA. This jives perfectly with my own experience (or more precisely, experiments) with large hard disks and these older operating systems.All is well now, I fixed it due to advise from the VAIO help file, but thanks to all of you for your effort. By going to Control Panel/Administrative tools/Computer management/Disk Management it SHOWS a graphic which allowed me to delete all partitions by just clicking on them which in turn put the partitions into an unallocated state and in essence cleaning the disk. I then used Ghost to copy my C drive to it, switched the cables from my old C disk to the new one and it boots fine and gives me a disk of 925 gigabytes of which 176 gigs are used, I have lots of room now. My D/E/F/G disks are partitions on a second hard disk and I have an external one for backup. Thanks again, I learned a lot. ...Ott |
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