Sen wrote:

What should be the max. size of a partition that FAT32 can support?

Look he

Cluster size and exploring the limits of FAT-32

posted to this news-group in Feb/2007

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...0e53eea1ce2fbf

Or, if that link is too long, try this:

http://tinyurl.com/6crjr7

A summary of that thread can be found he

http://tinyurl.com/6pdfpe

A related thread is this:

Windows 98 large file-count tests on large volume (500 gb hard drive)

http://tinyurl.com/5g3vya

The DOS FDISK (updated version) and FORMAT tools can correctly partition
and format hard drives up to (and probably exceeding) 500 gb in size.

The bottom line is that Win-98se can comfortably handle 500 gb hard
drives (and probably larger) even when formatted as a single partition -
BUT ONLY if the drive in question is NOT being controlled by the native
32-bit windows driver (ESDI_506.PDR).

There are 2 ways to insure that ESDI_506 is not being used for drive
access:

1) by using a SATA hard drive configured in RAID mode (not PATA/IDE
"re-map" mode)

2) by using a SATA or PATA drive connected to a third-party PCI
controller card which comes with it's own replacement for ESDI_506.PDR.