Western Digital's "tip" article from DEC 1996 on drive size
limitations under... FAT16 vs FAT32.And...
The NOV 1996 article on "The other BIOS Limitation!"
Essentially, what this limit comes down to for many new PC's today is NOT any kind of problem with the BIOS, but rather a limitation of the operating system itself! Microsoft® DOS and even Microsoft® Windows™95 (the original version) cannot access hard drive partitions over 2.1 GB because of how they actually format the hard drive's clusters! Only by using the so-called 32-bit FAT system can you have a single partition over 2.1 GB.
I don't have an article
about the 2.1 GigaByte Limit right now, however, I suggest you visit
this site:
Western Digital's "tip" article from DEC 1996 on drive size
limitations under... FAT16 vs FAT32.
And...
The
NOV 1996 article on "The other BIOS Limitation!"
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