Re: 200GB Hard Disk

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"Bob Eyster" <reyster1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The reason for partitioning in the first place was because back in the DOS
>days DOS could only read 2+gig at a time so you had to partition the drive
>if they were larger than 2gig.

You're thinking of the FAT16 file system's limit of 2.1GB per
partition. Remember that the original version of Win95 could handle
only FAT16, so it's not only DOS where we had to worry about that.

There are valid reasons to partition a disk, even though we don't
absolutely *have* to any more.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
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