i have a new 80G external drive - is firewire/USB
plan to install about 10-15 partitions on this drive
computer is an older system running win 98 SE - a PI desktop and a laptop that is supposed to be PIII, also running win 98 SE
my understanding is that I have to use fdisk from windows rather than fdisk in dos because the drive connects to system using USB and Firewire... which, far as i know, DOS cannot recognize
I was going to partition the drive and it did not show up... which i took to mean it was not formatted.... well got the drivers loaded, and drive appearing in device manager.... then i went to Fdisk
i found that the disk is an NTFS disk - which is probably why it does not show up in windows 98....
what is the best way to proceed... is there a way for win 98 to read ntfs-formatted disks or am i better off completely reformatting it this as a FAT32 before I start to partition? all of my other hard disks (3 internal 1 external usb only) are FAT32... but if there are advantages to ntfs then i wouldn't mind using it
the 80G drive shows up as 78.521G... i realised that the entire 80G would not be available, but still is 1.5G normal to lose when formattung disk?
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