Does Windows 98SE Allow more than 4 gigs to be moved onto a

[Vamp]

I'm thinking of getting a bigger hard-drive, to take over my 20 gig tinyness... I'd be mainly using it for capturing DV footage onto, Does Windows 98SE (which I use) allow for more than 4 gigs to be moved onto a HD at a time, or does only XP allow this? If so, then I'll just use my MP3 player, 20 gigs to save space on my main harddrive, it's connected via USB... good idea?

[Grant]

I am sure Win98SE only allows a max file size of 2Gig. A larger video file can be composed but it will only play up till the 2Gig mark I think

[xbreaka420]

nah 98se is weird bout hardrives, your best bet is to buy or build a new comp, seeing as its from the 98 era it prob support like dma/33 or 66 which with todays ata-100 drives is basically gonna be a bottleneck and your drives wont be uses to there full potential

[Matt]

The limitation you are seeing is due to the FAT32 filesystem used by Win 98. If you want files bigger than 4Gb then get XP and format your hard drive using the NTFS file system.

Under FAT32 AVI files are limited to 2Gb.

[ssj3gohan]

true, the only bottleneck with file size is fat16 (max 2.000.000.000 bytes filesize), fat32 (max 4 GiB filesize) and some strange thing that in fat32 you can only execute files smaller than 2 GiB. NTFS allows you to execute files up to 1 TiB and store other file types up to infinite bytes. As Win98 cannot work with NTFS you are indeed stuck with a 2 GB avisize. Cut 'em up or set your capturer to never exceed 1,99 GB filesize (most capturers have that kind of limiter).