No, because FAT16 partitions cannot be more then 2gb. That's why M$ came up with FAT32 so that partitions more then 2gb could be created. This is the short answer, since I don't know that much about FAT32 specs. Greg On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:12:25AM +0000, Doug Lawlor wrote: > 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? > > Thanks in advance, > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
