640 Megabyte Magneto-Optical Disk Listed as 512 Megabyte Disk

ID: Q188230

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 98

SYMPTOMS

When you view the drives listed in the Drives box in the Drive Converter (FAT32) tool, a 640 megabyte (MB) magneto-optical disk may be listed as a 512MB disk, and if you try to convert this disk to the file allocation table 32 (Fat32) file system, you may be unable to do so.

CAUSE

The behavior occurs because 640MB magneto-optical disks use a non-standard sector size of 2 kilobytes (K).

Additional query words: 98

Keywords : kbhw kbtool kbui win98
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb