David Hurst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I want to add a new 6.4 Gb IDE hard disk to my pentium 166 win 95
>system.  Will win 95 handle a drive that size ok?
If you format using FAT, the maximum size is 2GB.  With a partition size up
to 255MB, the cluster size is 4K (most efficient); 256-511MB it is 8K;
512-1032MB = 16K; 1-2GB = 32K.  So you can see that the larger the
partition size, the less efficient is storage (more wasteful).  If you used
only one partition and FAT on your new disk, you would only be able to
utilize 2GB.

If you use FAT32, the maximum size is 2TB (2000MB).  With a partition or
drive size between 512MB and 8GB, the FAT32 cluster size is 4K (the most
efficient possible). Over 8GB, the cluster size increases, so it would be
preferable to avoid a partition size any larger than this at the maximum if
possible.  If you have Win95 (OSR2 release) capable of FAT32, and you wish
to partition the disk, any hard disk larger than 512MB, in order to use
FAT32, fdisk will ask you if you want to enable Large Disk Support.  If you
answer yes, then any partition you create during that fdisk session that is
over 512MB will use the FAT32 file system.  If you answer no, then you will
be unable to create partitions larger than 2GB, unless you exit and restart
fdisk.  You can have a combination of FAT and FAT32 if you wish.  For
example you might want to have one or more 512MB, or smaller, partitions
that are FAT, and the remainder FAT32.

>I currently have a single drive with 2 logical drives.. C and D,
>with the CDROM as drive E.  And will the new drive be a new E drive,
replacing the
>CDROM, or will the drive lettering start at F..??
The new drive will have a primary partition D.  The old drive will keep its
primary partition as C and its extended partition will have its logical
drive reassigned as E.  Then the extended partition on the new drive will
have logical drives of F, G, etc, followed by the CDROM on the original
drive with the next available letter.

Hope this is helpful.
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