FDISK and FAT32

This is the first window which will be displayed when opening FDISK on a system which supports FAT32.

This screen WILL be seen on systems which have Windows 95 OSR2 (4.00.950B and 4.00.950C) and Windows 98.

This screen WILL NOT be seen on systems that have Windows 3.1, Windows 95 OSR1 (4.00.950 and 4.00.950A) or Windows NT.


Your computer has a disk larger than 512 MB. This version of Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting in more efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive.

IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk support and create any new drives on this disk, you will not be able to access the new drive(s) using other operating systems, including some versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as earlier versions of Windows and MS-DOS. In addition, disk utilities that were not designed explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able to work with this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating systems or older disk utilities, do not enable large drive support.


Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N) . . . . . . . . . . . ?
  [Y]



Put simply, the question asked above is "Do you wish to enable FAT32?"

Y for Yes will ENABLE FAT32 when creating partitions.

N for No means "DO NOT ENABLE FAT32, instead use FAT16."



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