This version of Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting in more efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive. In addition, disk utilities that were not designated explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able to work with this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating systems or older disk utilities, do no enable large drive support. Please wait while the Setup initializes.
Setup is now going to perform a routine check on your system. To continue press Enter. Windows 98 Product Line. NX-i Add to Cart. Add to Compare. NX-5i Add to Cart. NX-i80 Add to Cart. NX-i90 Add to Cart. The size of a cluster must be a power of 2 and less than 65, bytes — this results in a maximum cluster size of 32, bytes 32K. Multiplying number of clusters 65, by the maximum cluster size 32, equals 2GB. This offers the following enhancements over previous implementations of the FAT file system.
FAT32 supports drives that are up to 2 terabytes TB in size and stores files on smaller sections of the hard disk than the FAT16 file system does.
This results in more free space on the hard disk. FAT32 is also more robust, being less susceptible to a single point of failure than earlier version of the file system. If the hard disk is larger than MB, you receive the following prompt:. In cases where a disk comprises multiple partitions, these should be deleted in the reverse order to which they were created.
Thus, Logical DOS drives should be deleted first, followed by the Extended partition in which they reside with the Primary partition being deleted last of all. Do you wish to use the maximum available size for primary DOS partition?
Enter Y and Fdisk proceeds to allocate the whole disk to the partition. Depending on its size, you may choose to divide your hard disk in multiple partitions. The precise manner in which you do this depends on your purpose in partitioning in the first place. There are a number of reasons why you may want to organise your hard disk into multiple partitions:.
One reason for partitioning is that it helps in organising the data. You can partition it to organize data into various categories like a drive for your Windows and system files and for your personal work. You can then have another separate drive for storing the rest of your programs. You can even have one more for storing all your multimedia files, and maybe even one for storing backups of all your important files.
Before going ahead and partitioning a drive it is important to understand how partitions actually work. The primary partition is your active partition and this is from where your computer boots, sort of like a system partition. The extended partition is a placeholder where you can create all the other logical partitions.
File System is basically the way that files are stored on your computer. FAT 16 can support a drive of maximum 2 GB in size. For example, if you have an 8 GB hard disk, then you can have 4 drives of 2 GB each. FAT 32 on the other hand can support a drive of up to 2 Terabytes in size. Before actually going ahead and doing the reinstall it is advisable to back up any and all of your data and device drivers as a format will wipe out all your data on the drive.
After performing your backups it's time to get down to formatting and partitioning if you want to do that as well your hard drive.
To format your PC and reinstall windows 98 you need to do the following: 1. Make sure that you have the start up disk that came along with your operating system CD. Eject the floppy disk after the start up disk has been created. Knowledge Base Search. Log in. Options Help Chat with a consultant. Include archived documents. This content has been archived , and is no longer maintained by Indiana University.
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