Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Marco Paganini wrote:
> Hi Gayle,
>
> > I did not run into the 128 GB limitation because I partitioned the drive
> > into 6 partitions, none bigger than 40 GB. My smallest partition is 2 GB
> > as permitted by the Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility available off
> > their website. I got it because I was aware of the 64 GB limitation on
> > fdisk in Windows 98SE. My success is partly due to divine providence and
> > to some research.
>
> I may be wrong, but IIRC, it's not a partition limitation, but rather the
> geometry of the whole HD!
>
> Regards,
> Paga
>
>
The last partition on the drive is 40 GB in size and formatted as a
Windows 98SE partition because one of the reasons for getting the second
drive was that I had run out of room on the 12 GB drive.
I have not seen any problems yet. So I can't say for sure, then.
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
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