I'm sure MS limited the FAT support of the built-in tools to 32GB simply to
discourage the use of FAT for "anything serious".

MS VPC is just wonderful.  Need to have enough RAM available to support both
OS's at once is the only caveat I've seen so far.
(talked about RAM so that made this a hardware discussion :-).

Carl

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Glazier
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New hard drive

While this is true for the built-in tools, you "can" use third party
tools (or older MS ones?) to make a larger partition and it will
work fine.  I never trusted that theory myself since I would rather
have the security and convenience (and journaling) of NTFS.

(If I wanted to run Win98, I'd do it in a MSVirtualPC2004 session
on a NTFS drive inside a virtual drive file...)

                                              Rick Glazier

From: "Carl Houseman" <[log in to unmask]>

> BTW, if you want to have access to the Win2K partition from Win98, you
will
> have to format with the FAT(32) file system.   And in Win2K and XP, a FAT
> volume is limited to 32GB.

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