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Incomplete information, even per that article:

FAT32 is available for Windows 95, but only in OEM releases OSR2 and later. With FAT32, the partition limit is raised to 2 TB. 23 * 2 TB = 46 TB. However, the generic IDE driver in Windows 95 isn't capable of accessing above 128 GB, even if the BIOS can. There is a shareware driver that should be capable; some motherboards may also have a specific driver.

For the latter bit, you would most likely need to jump through seriously pointless hoops, and if you are tech savvy enough to source the drivers needed, I am strongly of the belief that you are tech savvy enough to know that in 2017, Windows 95 is not secure in any fashion, and if you are both tech savvy and performing something that you know is illegal, you certainly would not be using Windows 95.

The number of hoops he would have to jump through to get to "hundreds of terabytes" beyond that points to either the meme being completely wrong or the frame job being so obvious that the FBI should be put into time out for being THAT incompetent.

Also, sorting through "hundreds of terabytes" of image files would take a VERY long time on top of that. It's hard enough sometimes to find specific screenshots from video games that are saved!

Oh, last (few) points:

Most Windows 95 machines have probably burnt out by now, and finding old components would be a near impossibility without jacking the price up that collectors would pay for nerding out.

That leaves running Win. 95 on a virtual machine (not likely) or jumping through a ton more hoops still to get it to function on a modern day computer, like limiting RAM speeds and capacities, getting the OS to recognize and use your CPU which isn't likely to be super easy even with Intel's compatibility due to the fact that no 95 drivers have existed for an Intel product for like, at LEAST a decade. Probably longer. Then you also have GPU driver compatibility problems, modern display resolutions.

It's honestly such a shit show to get such an old operating system to function somewhat properly on modern hardware that it doesn't make sense that anyone would be doing it.

The simplest answer is likely to be the correct one: Frame job.

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: Original

Incomplete information, even per that article:

FAT32 is available for Windows 95, but only in OEM releases OSR2 and later. With FAT32, the partition limit is raised to 2 TB. 23 * 2 TB = 46 TB. However, the generic IDE driver in Windows 95 isn't capable of accessing above 128 GB, even if the BIOS can. There is a shareware driver that should be capable; some motherboards may also have a specific driver.

For the latter bit, you would most likely need to jump through seriously pointless hoops, and if you are tech savvy enough to source the drivers needed, I am strongly of the belief that you are tech savvy enough to know that in 2017, Windows 95 is not secure in any fashion, and if you are both tech savvy and performing something that you know is illegal, you certainly would not be using Windows 95.

The number of hoops he would have to jump through to get to "hundreds of terabytes" beyond that points to either the meme being completely wrong or the frame job being so obvious that the FBI should be put into time out for being THAT incompetent.

Also, sorting through "hundreds of terabytes" of image files would take a VERY long time on top of that. It's hard enough sometimes to find specific screenshots from video games that are saved!

1 year ago
1 score