FAT32

[Bronco]

Morning Folks,
Do you have to reinstall FAT32 after every reinstallation of win98?

The reason I ask is I was talking to this individual who rides a sportster like a kid just off of training wheels today & he told me that if you go into My Computer an click on your HD{View as webpage}the description will read local for FAT16 or FAT32 for FAT32.

Now me being the hard-head that I am argued that I knew that I had FAT32 but couldn't recall what was over the pie chart.{The reason that I knew was I remember checking this whole FAT situation out with win98 & I knew that I had installed it}.

Now of course the first thing I did when I got home was kick the dog &.....scuse me I got side tracked.....and check the 'puter.Guess what I found?

HD reads local,Recycle Bin says that I have a 1.99GB HD{when I have a 8GB}an I've reinstalled win98 or rather reformatted at least 4 times.

And as always,
Many Thanks to y'all



[This message has been edited by Bronco (edited 08-29-99).]

[socalgal]

Hi Bronco ~

FAT32 is an option you create when formatting, so no, you dont create it when reinstalling Win98. If you reformat tho, yes, by Enabling Large Disk Support. In MyComputer/C: Properties/General Tab, it should read File System: FAT32, if your hdd is formatted as FAT32.

Hope that helps. /forum/smile.gif

[Bronco]

Thanks,


Thats what I was looking for.

Win98 sure does bury some of this stuff.

[CMonster]

"fdisk!" luv, fdisk is the operation that gives you the "Do you want to enable large drive support? Y/N" option. fdisk. But you don't want to fdisk after you have gotten everything installed already - everything would be lost. There are several ways to convert FATs on-the-fly, Partition Magic comes to mind, and there is a utility in Win98 also, but I believe you will have to use a partitioning utility such as Partition Magic to get the full use out of the drive now that the OS is already installed.

Unless you want to start all over....

[socalgal]

oh doh! /forum/redface.gif

Where's my brains? Of course, you're right. Fdisk. Like I haven't done it enough times ...

Thanks for the correction CMonster, and sorry 'bout that Bronco.