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8.4-Gbtye limit
If your drive's capacity is greater than 8.4 Gbytes, the capacity
may exceed the limits of your system BIOS and operating sys-
tem. DOS and Windows operating systems and most system
BIOS's limit the drive partitions to 8.4 Gbytes per physical drive.
Because of this limitation, a 32-bit file allocation table (FAT32) is
needed to support drive capacities greater than 8.4 Gbytes.
To achieve your drive's full capacity, you need a Windows operat-
ing system that supports FAT32 and device support for drive
capacities greater than 8.4 Gbytes, from one of the following:
•
Third-party device driver, such as Disk Manager (Disk Man-
ager is provided on the DiscWizard diskette included with your
drive), or
•
An intelligent ATA host adapter, or
•
A system BIOS upgrade
Medalist 4342, 3232 and 2122, Rev. C
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