Partitioning And Formatting Your Drive Using The Fat32 Convention For Windows 95 Osr2, Windows 98, And Windows 2000 Professional; Partitioning And Formatting Your Drive Using The High Performance File System For Os/2 - IBM OPTIONS SCSI Manual Del Usuario

Partitioning and formatting your drive using the FAT32
convention for Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and
Windows 2000 Professional
The latest releases of Microsoft operating systems, including Windows 95
OSR2, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 Professional, include an option for a
32-bit file allocation table called FAT32. FAT32 supports partitions as large as 2
TB and cluster sizes of 4 KB
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you are able to prepare your drive without concern for the partition size limits
or storage efficiency. To determine of you have FAT32 installed, click My
Computer, right-click the icon for your existing drive, and then click
Properties. If FAT32 is installed, it is listed after File system: under the drive
label.
See your operating system User's Guide for specific information about
partitioning and formatting a drive using Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, or
Windows 2000 Professional.
Partitioning and formatting your drive using the high
performance file system for OS/2
If you are using OS/2, you can use the high performance file system (HPFS)
developed for OS/2 instead of the FAT16 file system to partition an additional
drive. HPFS allocates files in 512-byte units, reducing lost disk space. HPFS
also creates large partitions and accommodates large numbers of files more
efficiently than FAT16. For information on partitioning a drive using FAT16, see
"Partitioning and formatting your drive using the FAT16 convention for DOS
and Windows 3.x" on page 1-15.
To prepare your new drive using OS/2, do the following:
1. Partition and format your drive using the FAT16 file system, HPFS file
system, or both using the instructions given in the OS/2 User's Guide.
Note: In larger capacity drives, the OS/2 operating system can partition
only up to the first 2.14 GB, or the first 1024 logical cylinders, of the
drive using the FAT file system. However, you can partition the
entire drive using the HPFS file system.
Because you cannot partition the entire capacity if the drive when using
FAT, you must use HPFS to partition the rest of the drive.
1. When referring to hard disk drive capacity, TB (terabyte) means 1000000000000 bytes; total
user-accessible capacity might vary depending on the operating system.
2. When referring to cluster sizes, KB (kilobyte) means 1024 bytes.
3. When referring to hard disk drive capacity, GB (gigabyte) means 1000000000 bytes; total
user-accessible capacity might vary depending on the operating system.
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. If you have FAT32,
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