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Windows Millennium Edition Disk size

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First post, by Joni

Posted on 2025-03-22, 17:21

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Hi,

I have Asus P2B-VM with bios revision 1011. That revision has support for over 32Gb HDD's. My HDD is 1Tb Samsung HD103SJ Sata drive and I have it on Primary master with IDE to Sata adapter.

If I create new partition with XP SP3 disk I can create partition that is 953863 Mb.

With Windows ME startup floppy and FDISK I delete all partitions and create new one with fdisk then it creates 8060 Mb partition without asking what size I would like to have. Then I try to create another partition and it says no more free space left to create partition.

Have I forgot how to use FDISK or does Windows ME support disks over 8Gb?

Reply 1 of 5, by ciornyi

Posted on 2025-03-22, 17:41

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I belive you cannot use more than 137 gb disk space . It can be used as one partition or split to few . Me personally made system partion with 8GB rest is 32GB .My hdd is 80GB btw. Or you can use Partition magic or similar soft to create partition wuth size you want but as i said you hit 137gb limit anyway.

DOS: 166mmx/16mb/Y719/S3virge
DOS/95: PII333/128mb/AWE64/TNT2M64
Win98: P3 900/256mb/SB live/3dfx V3
Win Me: Athlon 1333/256mb/Audigy2/Geforce 2 GTS
Win XP: E8600/4096mb/SB X-fi/HD6850

Reply 2 of 5, by Joni

Posted on 2025-03-22, 18:11

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Yeah there's that limit but for some reason in ME the limit is 8Gb. It says no more free space for new partitions after I create one 8Gb partition.

Reply 3 of 5, by Horun

Posted on 2025-03-22, 18:35

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Try the updated Win98SE FDISK and see what it says...it has worked to 137GB properly on some my 250 and 500GB drives..

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Reply 4 of 5, by Joni

Posted on 2025-03-23, 16:54

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I tried with Partition Magic 7 and it thinks also that the drive is 8Gb drive. On Windows XP and Windows 2000 there drive size is corrects. I'll try to buy PATA disk.

Reply 5 of 5, by Disruptor

Posted on 2025-03-23, 17:09

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Those adapters don't support cap limit to 32 GB and neither SATA drives do.
So expect the unexpected.

Perhaps you can find a patched BIOS for the P2B-S that omits the 32 GB cap limit.
If not you're probably limited to INT13 (without extensions, so 8 GB).
Just expect the unexpected.

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