windows millenium

i wonder if i can rack your brains?

im running os millenium and have been reading every article on the fat32 4gb boundry....

i cant use NTFS and dont wanna run XP which i beleive uses ntfs as standard? maybe wrong

anyway to the point im looking to b able to patch windows to allow the use of over 4gb dvd images...

i beleive this is possible as i have read about it but cant seem to find the patch

can anybody help?

What fat32 4gb limit?

fat32 supports at least 32gb, probably bigger. Some OS's like NT4 had a limit of 4gb on the installation partition, but would support other larger partitions.

I've installed ME on a 30gb single partition drive with no problems.

Wind*ws Xp can use either Fat32 or NTFS.

ok lemme explain a little


i have a 60gb hdd split 10,10,20,20

ive dloaded images of dvdr in .rar files

upon extracting them to any drive i get a message telling me that i cannot extract any further than 4gb unless using ntfs

Maybe it's a winrar thing, I don't use that program.

lol no probs with winrar no prob with image just the 4gb limit on fat32

I did a little looking around and it does seem there is a 4gb file size limit in W9x anyway, probably in Me as well.

I didn't find any solutions other than suggestions to use a different OS.

Doug G answered right.

The limit is not in the file system but in the file size.

Just to clarify;

There is a fat32 limit in volume size but it is in the terabyte range. XP and W2K artifically limit fat32 volumes to 32gig. If you create the volume using (98/ME/or utilites) larger then 32gig W2K and XP CAN address and use it.

NT has a install limit of 4gig whether vfat or ntfs. NTFS limit is in the terabyte range.

Fat16 is limited to 2gig.

Maybe increasing your partition cluster size to 64k might help.
Normal limit is 32k but under certain circumstances you can use 64. Obviously this will increase the max partition size and maybe
doing this might double the max filesize ??
I've never tried it so I do'nt know for sure.