Can TransDisk have a partition over 2.14GB?
All TransDisks having disk size over 2.1GB are shipped preformatted with multiple partitions, each less than 2.1GB so that the TransDisk can be used by DOS, Windows95, and NT. Because DOS file system (FAT16) with its 16-bit commands (DIR, XCOPY, ….) can only handle cluster size up to 64, e.g., 32K bytes. Next bigger cluster size is 128 (64K bytes) which goes beyond the 16-bit segment limit. This can translate into 2*1024*1024*1024 data bytes or (including file system overhead) 4159 cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors. Hence, the 16-bit DOS can handle a single partition up to 2.14GB. TransDisk Software: TransDisk driver (TD-EPP.SYS): can handle partition over the 2.14GB limit well. TD.EXE: Only version 4.04A or above will allow you to initialize hard disk over 2.1GB. Use option of “-OVER16”, i.e. “TD -OVER16” on command line, to initialize a TransDisk to have a partition over 2.1GB. Without “-OVER16” in the command line, no partition over 2.1GB is allowed in initializing a TransDisk. DOS an
