Anyone settle this argument? Win98/Hard Drive

My mate reckons that Win98 cant take a bigger hard drive than 32Gb. I laughed and told him that was absolute rubbish.

Can anyone settle the argument?

If Im wrong then I'll have to suffer the embarassment of being wrong!

 

I think you are right and here is some proof.

http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

Max Volume Size = 2TB

 

I've got win98 on a 80 gig drive right now and it runs like a charm.

 

Thanx! I didnt think I was wrong like.

Now I get to prove it to him as well. Cheers!

 

Isn't there some limitation somewhere in regards to Partition size and reliablility on some systems and/or OS ?

BB

 

Take a look:

http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0107.htm

 

I think what he may be referring to is the fdisk limit of 32gig, and misreporting the size of a drive.
If using fdisk to partition a drive larger than 32 gb, use percentages of drive space for primary, logical and extended, instead of the actual capacity, and you can then use fdisk to partition up to 128gb, at which point fdisk craps out completely.
The XP CD setup will allow partition sizes up to 2 tb.