Fdisk simulation

Updated: 06/02/2020 by Computer Hope

Below is the first window displayed when opening FDISK.

Note

This screen is not shown in Windows NT and Windows 95 OSR1 or lower operating systems. This screen is asking if you want to enable the new FAT, which is FAT32.

Your computer has a disk larger than 512 MB. This version of Windows includes improved support for large disks. This improved support provides more efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive.

IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk support and create any new drives on this disk, the new drive(s) cannot be accessed using other operating systems. These operating systems include some versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT, and earlier versions of Windows and MS-DOS. In addition, disk utilities that were not designed explicitly for the FAT32 file system cannot work with this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating systems or older disk utilities, do not enable large drive support.

Do you want to enable large disk support (Y/N) . . . . . . . . . . . ? [Y]


You have two options: either Y for Yes, to enable FAT32 when creating partitions; or N for No, do not enable FAT32, and instead use FAT16.

Say Yes | Say No