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is w98 fat16?
| geek_olack |
March 16, 2010, 1:46 am |
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#1 | | if a format utiity has a fat format available as 16 clusters does that mean it will format a hard drive as Fat16? I think it was "clusters". | |
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| geek_drcspy |
March 16, 2010, 3:27 am |
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#2 | | it's fat32 from memory olack (win98) |
| geek_hammerer |
March 16, 2010, 7:51 am |
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#3 | You could have googled this faster than putting a message here!
FAT16 and FAT32 refer to the number of bits. Win95 introduced FAT32 so Win98 should be the same.
The default cluster size (a cluster of disk sectors) for a drive depends upon its size:
http://technet. microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940351. aspx |
| geek_mrfxit |
March 16, 2010, 8:08 am |
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#4 | Win95 /98 /98SE use's FAT32 (only)
it wasNT4 that used fat16 or Ntfs
The options for formatting as fat16 was mostly there for compatibility formatting of floppy disks etc with NT4 loaded on fat16.
It's a bit like other options in bios's such as a 2nd floppy "B" drive etc, left over "just in case you needed it" |
| geek_drcspy |
March 16, 2010, 8:09 am |
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#5 | | nah I'm pretty sure 95 was originally fat16... ... |
| geek_mrfxit |
March 16, 2010, 8:16 am |
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#6 | Pass, but never ever bothered to install win95 on fat16 (option never presented itself when formatting hdd's / or never noticed ? )
I do remember that NT4 had to be installed on fat16 OR Ntfs
Win2k was ONLY Ntfs |
| geek_flewy |
March 16, 2010, 8:18 am |
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#7 | | http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table :) |
| geek_mark.p |
March 16, 2010, 4:41 pm |
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#8 | | From memory the very first shipped versions of windows 95 where FAT16. Later OEM copies supported FAT32. |
| geek_dr.benway |
March 16, 2010, 5:43 pm |
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#9 | | cluster size ! = fatxx |
| geek_mrfxit |
March 16, 2010, 6:37 pm |
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#10 | You could be right tho...
We started with an upgrade copy of win95a & that was automaticly fat32
later got a full version of win95a & that was also auto fat32
Maybe that was a 1st retail release version of win95 that you remember? (no letters after the "win" bit) |
| geek_mrfxit |
March 16, 2010, 6:39 pm |
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#11 | | Cluster size is often slightly varible within which "fat" selection you choose |
| geek_blenheim-trader |
March 16, 2010, 6:40 pm |
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#12 | | Original release of Win95 was fat 16 only 2gig partitions . . |
| geek_mark.p |
March 16, 2010, 8:04 pm |
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#13 | | http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=O7q9FCz5zXY |
| geek_olack |
March 16, 2010, 9:39 pm |
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#14 | | #1 was impatient and was worried because he could not start his old computer with a w98 cd. He thought if he formatted the hard drive using16 bit clusters things then maybe the w98 install cd would think the hard drive was formatted as a FAT16 hard drive and so permit the install. However he does not know much at all and discovered the hard drive which he forgot did not pass all formatting attempts he tried with it because it failed once ... I now forgot what I am rambling about and will not use that computer any more because I remembered I have a w98 computer somewhere else in the house anyway. |
| geek_mrfxit |
March 17, 2010, 7:26 am |
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#15 | Aarrrrrhhh so in other words
His hdd is stuffed |
| geek_drcspy |
March 17, 2010, 7:40 am |
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#16 | | olack I hope you haven't been taking the same pills deodar takes ? |
| geek_olack |
March 17, 2010, 10:57 pm |
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#17 | | I don't want to take the pills deodar takes. |
| geek_olack |
March 17, 2010, 10:58 pm |
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#18 | | yep |
| geek_un_known |
March 18, 2010, 1:06 am |
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#19 | | quantum bigfoot? the old angle grinder. . alot of storage for not alot of money in their day. . not alot of speed tho. . but hey everything was so much slower than it is now. . except the OS's funny that... imagine if u could run 95 on an i7 or Core2... |
| geek_mrfxit |
March 18, 2010, 10:16 am |
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#20 | I don't need any pills that YOU or Deodar takes...
I have my OWN | |
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