Enabling large disk support has no negative effect on your linux installation. When MS fdisk refers to other opertating systems they mean DOS, Win3.1, NT3.51 etc... > Hello list, Here is what I need to do. I have two drives here. One is a > 20Gb/7200rpm and the second is a 40GB/5400 RPM. I want to set up Linux and > Windows on the first drive and use my second for data storage. . When I > use the windows Fdisk command to create the Windows partition I get asked > If I want large disk support. Fdisk gives me a message stating something > to the effect If I enable this no other operating system will be able to > use the drive. I know that is not quite true but Fdisk also goes on to > tell me if I disable large disk support Windows will only support > partitions up to 2GB. Can I disable the large disk support and create a > partition that's larger than two GB?