Re: Help -Hard Disk problems with big disks & windows

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Post #110,427 by qstephens 7/18/03 7:31:15 PM Reply	Re: Help -Hard Disk problems with big disks & windows There's a MS KB article about this but the nub is that there's a hard-coded limit of 32 GB for a FAT32 partition. To get around this, FDISK and FORMAT using Windows 98 SE. Oh, and FORMAT under W98SE has a cosmetic bug in that it reports partition size modulo 64GB qts
Post #110,542 by dmarker 7/20/03 7:55:12 AM Reply	Decided to convert all to NTFS ... Am doing a lot of digital video & DVD burning so decided the easy way out was to convert all my main disks to NTFS. I have a few that are in plug-in trays so I can move large volumes of data between servers. Will keep one large SCSI disk for Redhat - est will just have to go to NTFS. Thanks Doug

Help -Hard Disk problems with big disks & windows - (dmarker) - (2) - July 18, 2003, 02:14:30 PM EDT

Re: Help -Hard Disk problems with big disks & windows - (qstephens) - (1) - July 18, 2003, 07:31:15 PM EDT

Decided to convert all to NTFS ... - (dmarker) - July 20, 2003, 07:55:12 AM EDT

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