OS Hard Disc Space

[Churchill]

I seem to recall that 98 et al had problems with too much ram...

Anyway, wot about Win3.0, Win3.1, and Win3.11. You just can't ignore the classics...

OS/2

Anything pre V2.0

[Sysman]

I seem to recall that 98 et al had problems with too much ram...

Anyway, wot about Win3.0, Win3.1, and Win3.11. You just can't ignore the classics...

Can anyone remember the maximum disk size supported by DOS, Win 3.n, and Win 95, 98, ME?

Since we are talking installations here, I'm 99% certain that NT 4.0 could only initialise a maximum of 2 GB, though would happily install onto a larger disk if already initialised as NTFS.

[Sysman]

Which version of Dos?

Max partition size was an enormous 32Mb in dos 3...

Max partition size later on was 2.1Gb for FAT16.

Dos can't see (so far as I'm aware) FAT32... (or NTFS) without additional jiggery pokery.

NT 4.0 couldn't do FAT32 either, though I seem to remember some frigs to do it (read-only?) at a later date.