[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

Ray Davison raydav at charter.net
Fri Mar 5 18:57:19 PST 2010


Jim Hughes wrote:
> 
> One caveat (and possibly an aside) is;
> That, if you run Win 2k, XP,, etc. on the same machine and have 
> "pinball.sys" installed to give Windows access to HPFS partitions, the 
> largest HPFS partition can only be a maximum of 8 GB. This is from 
> various things I've read and experience with a variety of machines.

There is another practical limit to partition size; it should only be a 
big as you are willing to back up.

Ray


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