Installation Guide - Partitioning Planning
The latest releases of Microsoft operating systems, including Windows 98,
have an option for a 32-bit file allocation table called FAT32.
FAT32 supports partitions as large as 2 TB 2 and cluster sizes of 4 KB 3 for partitions up to 8 GB.
If you have FAT32, you will be able to prepare the drive without concern for partition size limits or storage efficiency.
To determine if you have FAT32 installed, select the existing drive under My Computer, and select Properties.
If FAT32 is installed, the General tab will display FAT32 under the drive label.
The largest partition size that you can create under the DOS, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, and OS/2 operating systems
that use the 16-bit file allocation table (FAT16) file system is approximately 2.14 GB.
Therefore, if the operating system uses the FAT16 file system, you must create more than one partition to use
the full capacity of the drive.
If you use the DOS-based FDISK utility to partition the drive and you are using the maximum partition size of 2.14 GB,
you must enter the partition size as 2047 MB.
If you are using OS/2, you can use the high performance file system (HPFS) developed for OS/2, instead of the FAT16 file system,
to partition an additional drive. HPFS allocates files in 512-byte units, reducing lost disk space.
HPFS also creates large partitions and accommodates large numbers of files more efficiently than FAT16 does.
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