Does Windows 98 or Windows 2000 use space more efficiently than Windows 95?

Question

There were many complaints when Windows 95 came out about how it wasted a lot of disk space. The solution, we heard, was to physically partition the disk into two or more drives. How did that accomplish anything?

Answer 1

I've been supporting Windows since 3.1 and I can't say I've heard that before. Older versions of Windows (95/98/ME) worked with FAT16 or FAT32 file systems. PC's that had Windows 95 stood a good chance of using FAT16 which is limited to 2GB. So whatever you heard, it might really be about NTFS versus FAT.

The older versions of Windows also didn't make good use of virtual memory (page file and memory addresses), which is why you should avoid using more than 512MB of RAM. This problem was resolved in Windows 2000.

Try to be more specific on what the "problem" is with disk space that you're referring to. From the surface, it doesn't appear to be a "real" issue. It certainly doesn't make sense to divide a hard drive into more than one partition in order to prevent wasted space. That's absurd!

Answer 2

report Allocation table or fat is a table that the working device makes use of to locate data on a disk. as a results of fragmentation, a report could be divided into many sections that are scattered around the disk. The fat retains song of maximum of those products. In DOS platforms, fat are saved basically after the boot sector. The fat device for older variations of homestead windows ninety 5 is talked approximately as FAT16, and the single for brand spanking new variations of homestead windows ninety 5 and homestead windows ninety 8 is talked approximately as FAT32. fat report formats are not extremely used lots now that we've NTFS format yet fat/fat 32 are utilized in floppies and that usb flash force you have makes use of fat/FAT32 report device maximum different flash reminiscence enjoying cards that bypass into your digital camera/cellular telephone additionally makes use of fat/FAT32

Answer 3

i can help you by suggesting that you post that question to microsoft's website @ www.microsoft.com