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128GB CF only formatting up to 32GB under Win98SE

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First post, by C0deHunter

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METHOD 1

On my retro machine, in *pure* DOS mode, with my 128GB SanDisk 128GB connected, I invoke diskpart, enable large drive support by Y, create a new Primary DOS partition, exit.
Back in Win98SE, see the drive icon (D:\), right click, and FORMAT, but it formats only up to 32GB

METHOD 2

On my Win7 card reader, use DISKPART to CLEAN the drive, then use Win7 Disk-management to format in exFAT or NTFC (temporary measure), and finally use guiformat.exe

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

to format the entire drive in FAT32 (128GB).

When I connect it my Win98SE retro machine, it does not even see it!

What gives!?

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

Reply 1 of 5, by shamino

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Win9x only allows up to 32GB on a FAT32 partition. You should still be able to make multiple partitions of that size though.
I don't know if there are workarounds to allow bigger partitions.

Reply 2 of 5, by C0deHunter

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Thanks, but believe me, when I say that I just had this drive formatted as 128GB FAT32 since last year.

I just formatted it, and somehow I forgot how I got it to format up to 128GB!

Arrgh!!!

UPDATE

On my Win7, I just used ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR 11 to create and format 128GB, and now Win98SE see it! as 128GB!

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

Reply 3 of 5, by kjliew

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You need to hunt down official MS patches for Win98SE to support >32GB of partition with FAT32. I have been able to format single partition of 80GB and 160GB on systems that support LBA48.

Reply 4 of 5, by C0deHunter

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Well, I have been using my 128GB SanDisk CF under Win98SE (downloaded from REMOVED ) since last year with no issues.

Last edited by DosFreak on 2024-05-19, 23:10. Edited 1 time in total.

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

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