Maximum Partition Size Using FAT16 File System (118335)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system
This article was previously published under Q118335 SUMMARY
Microsoft MS-DOS versions 4.0 and later allow FDISK to partition hard
disks up to 4 gigabytes (GB) in size. However, the MS-DOS file allocation
table (FAT) file system can support only 2 GB per partition. Because of
this fact, a hard disk between 2 and 4 GB in size must be broken down
into multiple partitions, each of which does not exceed 2 GB.
NOTE: Windows 95 OEM Service Release version 2 and later support drives
larger than 2 GB using the FAT32 file system. For more information about
the FAT32 file system, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: 154997
TITLE : Description of the FAT32 File System
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 12/16/2004 |
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Keywords: | kbHardware kbinfo kbsetup KB118335 |
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