Hard Drives

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:53 pm

what is the size that the os can see up to.? i know the 80gb is too big for those os's

but it worked on the winMe

so i am after another new one for the win98 but dont want to get one i cant use anywhere as i have no more places for one other then win98.

thanks.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 7:18 pm

I think 32Gigs is the max it can see, but I'm not sure. That's the highest I've seen. In my case I think it was the bios limiting me and not the OS though, but I did use win98se.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 7:43 pm

ok so i can get a 20 gb hard drive and add it in to the system right. and it will see it. or was that a limit of 32 gbs nomatter how many hd's you had?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 8:36 pm

You'll be fine with a 20Gig, the limit is per hard drive I think, so you could have 4 32 gigs and it would still work if the limit is 32, but I'm not sure what the limit is though, but I know it's 32 or more since I had a 40 gig once and it was 32 because of the bios.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 2:48 am

honestly I don't know alot about the OS limiting hard drive size, usualy it's either a matter of the bios or file system.

fat32, the file system used in win98 and ME, does have limit volume size to 32gb, but again that's volume size, you can have more than one volume on a drive, that is, more than one logical drive. So if you had a 40gb hard drive you could break that up into 2 20gb logical drives using a tool like fdisk or partition magic [I don't remember if the 98me setup is that advanced to do partitioning, though the 2k and xp setups are]

a quick run down of common files systems and volume limits:

fat16 (dos, win9598ME) 2gb (in win2kxp) 4gb

fat32 (win98ME, win2kXP) 32gb

ntfs (win2kxp) 255 terabytes (theoretical)

but again once you reach these limits, if yor bios allows for it, you can work around them by creating more than one volume (partition) on your drive, that is unless you're using ntfs, in which case if you said you had a 300tb drive, you obviously are either a looney or have the money to pay someone else to figure it out for you

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 3:14 am

rovingcowboy wrote: which is good cause the store would not take it back and dell would not use it because the dell bios did not like it since it was not stamped by dell.

that does not make sense i know but i put it in the dell and winxp seen it but the dell bios would not accept it. ? and the one that is in there is the same dang hd, a maxtor 80 gb. it even looks the same..

well that sucks

. strange though as recently I installed an off the shelf hd into a a dell computer, a 60gb seagate baracuda IV if I remember correctly. It did look like it was a newer model though, so maybe it's something dell just stopped doing recently, I dunno.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:39 am

fixed this also.

have now used a ata card and put the 80 gb and a new 20 gb from online store. in to the old win98 computer and am using all for music jukebox. but all is working.

only like with the dell it needs to have the magic dell stamp.

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