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Windows 98SE limits?
"Ron Badour" wrote:
You will probably have a problem with that as a 36 gb partition should have a 32 kb cluster size. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=229154 The values in that article are excessively conservative. Insofar as Scandisk and Defrag are concerned you can use: 4K clusters for drives up to 16 gb 8K clusters for drives up to 32 gb 16K clusters for drives up to 64 gb 32K clusters for drives up to 128 gb. I don't know why Microsoft chose the values they did for this article, but if you follow the logic used with the other cluster sizes then the limit for 32K clusters should be 64 gb whereas in fact it is 128 gb. Experimentation has shown that the values I gave above do work. This cluster size issue used to come up very frequently a few years ago, when many people were replacing their hard drives with larger models. Often they would use a drive cloning utility to copy the entire content of the old drive to the new one and by doing so the new drive would often end up with the same cluster size as the old drive. So if a 4 gb drive with 4K clusters was cloned to a new 17 gb drive it could result in a 4K cluster size on the new drive, creating more than 4.1 million total clusters and therefore neither Scandisk or Defrag would work. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006) On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca |
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Windows 98SE limits?
"Johnny" wrote in message
... Looks like it time to move to Windows XP. I just like 98se it has all ways work so well for me. So why do you need to move - planning on needing more than these then? [] The maximum HDD size Windows supports is 128GB ( since there are no 128GB [] you can use 1GB of memory without any problems. Again, your motherboard [] |
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Windows 98SE limits?
"Johnny" wrote in message
... Looks like it time to move to Windows XP. I just like 98se it has all ways work so well for me. So why do you need to move - planning on needing more than these then? [] The maximum HDD size Windows supports is 128GB ( since there are no 128GB [] you can use 1GB of memory without any problems. Again, your motherboard [] |
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