First post, by red_avatar
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I've been using 128GB USB sticks in a PCI USB 2.0 card for a while now in my Pentium 2 333Mhz and P3 1Ghz PCs but I came across a post saying that Windows 98 SE supports up to 2TB over USB but to avoid going over 1TB partitions due to a bug.
I tried to find confirmation for this but I found far more topics claiming there's much lower limits which became very confusing to me ... so I decided to try myself and yep, Windows 98 SE detects it as 1TB (I partitioned it as 975GB to avoid the bug).
My question is now: is this safe to use? I remember trying to go over 128GB partition as a hard drive (not USB) and it cause major issues and corrupted the drive. Would it do the same to a USB drive or do you believe PATA rules do not apply to USB since it uses its own PCI card?
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