Microsoft KB Archive/188230

= 640 Megabyte Magneto-Optical Disk Listed as 512 Megabyte Disk =

Article ID: 188230

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q188230



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).

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