Hard Drive How Big

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markp62 your answer has confused me:

Originally posted by markp62

At A:\> type fdisk enter
press "N" enter for large disk support << Y=FAT32, N=FAT16
At this point, you want to enter N, this will give you what you want

Jerryhillman has stated that Win3.11 will not run on a drive larger than 2.1 Gb, why are you suggesting he use Fat16 ?

Originally posted by markp62
press "Y" enter at do you wish to use the maximum available size for Primary DOS Partition
and make the partition active (Y/N)..?
You want Y at this point and allow to use the maximum, it will create a 2 gb partition

Is the maximum 2Gb because you seleted N to large disk support and if so won't this mean the rest of the drive will be unavailable ?

Originally posted by markp62
To create a second partition, you must create a extended partition and then create the logical drive(s) or other partitions.

How, the rest of the drive won't be recognised because you chose N to large disk support.

Originally posted by markp62
(i.e. 19,09.84M for a 20Gig)

Where did you get 20Gb from, the only drive mentioned was 4.1Gb spare ?

I would have thought the logical steps to take would be:

Answer Y to large disk support so the full 4.1Gb is recognised.

When creating the primary partition, answer N to maximum partition question and then enter 2048Mb as the size to create a 2Gb partition.

Create and extended partition with either 1 logical drive of 2.1Gb or 2 logical drives of 2gb and 0.1Gb ?

Note: mine is a very high level summary.