DOS only supports hard drives up to 7.8 GB ....why ?
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Jump to Postlikely because that was the largest avaible drive when people were might have been still using dos
Jump to PostActually, i dont know where you got the 7.8 GB limitation. As far as I know, there is a 2GB limitation per partition, not hard drive. The reason is simple. DOS supports a FAT16 file system. FAT16 has a maximum cluster size of 32KB. It also has a maximum number …
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