Memory hold

Whats the top amount of memory a windows 98 can handle up to cause im
thinking about buying a external drive for it and i need to know how much it
can handle so i can buy the right amount of gigabytes

thank you to who ever answers

"Justin" wrote in message
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Whats the top amount of memory a windows 98 can handle up to cause im
thinking about buying a external drive for it and i need to know how much
it
can handle so i can buy the right amount of gigabytes

thank you to who ever answers


memory has no relation to harddrive space

"Justin" wrote in message
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Whats the top amount of memory a windows 98 can handle up to cause im
thinking about buying a external drive for it and i need to know how much
it
can handle so i can buy the right amount of gigabytes

thank you to who ever answers


memory has no relation to harddrive space

You are referring to disk drive size, not memory.

The limitation is imposed by a combination of hardware and the file system.
Windows uses the FAT32 file system. You can manage disks up to 137Gb using
the FAT32 utilities provided with Windows 98, however you may need to obtain
an updated version of FDISK for everything to work properly - see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044

If you use third party tools to prepare the disk and if your hardware
supports it then it may be possible to use drives larger than 137Gb,
although special device drivers may also be required.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Justin" wrote in message
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Whats the top amount of memory a windows 98 can handle up to cause im
thinking about buying a external drive for it and i need to know how much
it
can handle so i can buy the right amount of gigabytes

thank you to who ever answers

You are referring to disk drive size, not memory.

The limitation is imposed by a combination of hardware and the file system.
Windows uses the FAT32 file system. You can manage disks up to 137Gb using
the FAT32 utilities provided with Windows 98, however you may need to obtain
an updated version of FDISK for everything to work properly - see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044

If you use third party tools to prepare the disk and if your hardware
supports it then it may be possible to use drives larger than 137Gb,
although special device drivers may also be required.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Justin" wrote in message
...
Whats the top amount of memory a windows 98 can handle up to cause im
thinking about buying a external drive for it and i need to know how much
it
can handle so i can buy the right amount of gigabytes

thank you to who ever answers

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SNIP

If I got a 200gb drive, I'd probably make at least 6
partitions on it.

As I /may/ have mentioned previously, I have 16 on my 40GB
drive.


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"Who knows what the OP is talking about?"
(about thanatoid)

wrote in
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SNIP

If I got a 200gb drive, I'd probably make at least 6
partitions on it.

As I /may/ have mentioned previously, I have 16 on my 40GB
drive.


--
"Who knows what the OP is talking about?"
(about thanatoid)

The maximum partition size for a FAT32 partition with the tools included
with W98 is about 32Gb, but tools that allow larger partitions to be created
and managed are available.

The 137Gb limitation is imposed by the ATA interface. Although it is
possible to arrange the partitioning so that a FAT32 partition extends
beyond this limit, restrictions in ATA and the Int13 interface means that
addresses will wrap around and writes to such a partition will corrupt other
parts of the disk.

The whole system must be configured with 48-bit LBA to use any part of a
disk beyond 137Gb in W98.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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snip

This is correct. However I believe the maximum 137gb is per
partition. (I think this is correct?). So if you buy a 200gb drive,
make two (or more) partitions, such as 130 / 70 or 100 / 100, or 100 /
50 / 50 (that's 3 partitions).

The maximum partition size for a FAT32 partition with the tools included
with W98 is about 32Gb, but tools that allow larger partitions to be created
and managed are available.

The 137Gb limitation is imposed by the ATA interface. Although it is
possible to arrange the partitioning so that a FAT32 partition extends
beyond this limit, restrictions in ATA and the Int13 interface means that
addresses will wrap around and writes to such a partition will corrupt other
parts of the disk.

The whole system must be configured with 48-bit LBA to use any part of a
disk beyond 137Gb in W98.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
wrote in message
...
snip

This is correct. However I believe the maximum 137gb is per
partition. (I think this is correct?). So if you buy a 200gb drive,
make two (or more) partitions, such as 130 / 70 or 100 / 100, or 100 /
50 / 50 (that's 3 partitions).

Jeff Richards wrote:

The maximum partition size for a FAT32 partition with the tools
included with W98 is about 32Gb, but tools that allow larger
partitions to be created and managed are available.

The 137Gb limitation is imposed by the ATA interface.

W98 scandisk and defrag *do* have a 127.53GiB or 137GB partition
limitation, caused by their 16 bit nature.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006/en-us