Compaq Deskpro 2000 Service & Reference Manual page 65

File System
FAT 16
FAT 16
FAT 32
NTFS
For example, an 8-GB drive operating in a Windows 95 environment using FAT 16 would have a
total of four 2-GB drive partitions. That same drive operating in Windows NT using FAT 16
would have two 4-GB drive partitions unless the user elected to subdivide it into smaller sections.
The identical drive using FAT 32 would have a single 8-GB partition unless the user elected to
subdivide it into smaller sections.
C-2 Hard Drives
Drive Partition Size
Operating System
DOS/Windows 95
Windows NT
Maximum Partition Size
2 GB
4 GB
2 Terabytes
2 Terabytes