- 2gig limit
- Posted by dan murwin on October 6th, 2003
I am currently using windows 98 se does anyone know if
there is an upgrade to fix the 2gig limit issue or do i
need to upgrade to windows xp. If I nned to upgrade to xp
is there a limit?
- Posted by Bill James on October 6th, 2003
Takes a little guessing to figure out what you are referring to, but it sounds like you are asking about the 2 GB partition size limit. That only applies to partitions formatted as FAT16, commonly referred to as just FAT. Windows 98 drives can also be FAT32, which supports drives up to 2 terabytes in size. See this MS Knowledge Base article for more information, 154997 - Description of the FAT32 File System: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;154997. That article will also tell you have to convert to FAT32.
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- Posted by Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] on October 6th, 2003
The limit on a file's size is 4gb in Windows 9x, but most programs will not
create a file larger than 2gb (actually 2gb minus one byte) due to the size
of a common data type. There is no patch, upgrade or workaround to the 4gb
size limit, the 2gb size limit may be avoided by using a different program
to create whatever humongous file you're trying to create.
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