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xp disc setup files
So either way you go, you can't use WinXP to repartition & reformat the external drive. XP can't format a large drive as FAT32 (I don't know about Vista). Intentional limitation of XP placed there by Microsoft to discourage using FAT32 because it is compatible with other non-Microsoft operating systems.

Question: What make a "green" low energy PC?
Has anyone heard of a way of concatenating two hard drives together to product one large virtual drive space? The goal would be to allow a user to add a hard drive to their computer without manually distributing files to take advantage of the additional space. In essence growing their C: drive partition to a larger

Large Drive Support
I believe that my system (Pentium II) will allow this and that a 40 GB drive should be able to be installed with no BIOS problem other than getting the necessary Windows 98 updates for large drive formatting, etc., plus partioning. I would appreciate any comments in this regard, as I don't want to purchase a hard

how to copy multiple small drives to one large drive?
The latest drives can only do about 40Mbytes/sec under the best conditions (huge seqential transfers) so 66Mb/sec presents no practical limit. In <9p4eba0...@enews3.newsguy.com>, PatMc wrote: The BIOS is out of the question. I usually select none for the large drives in the BIOS. Then Linux finds it with no problem

am already using LARGE DRIVE SUPPORT
(2) If the answer above is "No", what sppose I also temporarily add a Promise Ultra66 controller card and attach the 13.6G drive to that: does that resolve the large-drive-not-fully-visible problem? (3) I gather that there's a summer-1999 version of IBM1S506.ADD; (a) do I need that one, or is the 10-8-98 sufficient

Aiuto per partition tables sconfigurate!
See these two year-old articles about "Big Drives" (over ~138 GB): Big Drives http://www.maxtor.com/en/technologies/big_drives/ Live Large with Big Drives http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,519303,00.asp Or search Google for later articles. It shows over 7000 hits on "big drives" today.

MP Won't Install on Large Drive
To handle large drives, make sure you are using version 4. Quentin Schiltz wrote in message ... I am running Windows 98 and recently purchased a new Maxtor 11.5 GB hard drive. I am confused about my options as far as partitioning the drive with FAT32. I know that I can create one large partition.

Large Hard Drives
Installing RH first and then Windoze runs into the old problem of Gates wanting to destroy any existing OS that is not his. I will get there eventually once I hack on it enough but was just wondering if anyone with a large drive has gone through this before? Well, you could create a ~50megbyte partition and swap

Large Hard Drive for XPS R400
Lorne Sunley lsun...@mb.sympatico.ca comp os os2 setup misc On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 02:19:10, "David B. Weintraub" <dwei...@azstarnet.com> wrote: <snip large original post> I noticed that both the drives are on the same IDE channel. Did you try putting the large drive on the second IDE port.

Partition options for large hard drive w/FAT32
But I am wondering about the BIOS settings. I currently have the drive set for "Auto". If you set it for "User", you get the following choices for "Translation Method": -LBA -Large -Normal -Match Partition Table -Manual I'm not clear on what those are, or whether I should be using one of these choices at all.

Adding New Large Drive To Older System
Bob Harris rharris...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware XP (original) could not handle hard drives larger than about 127 Gig. That was fixed in SP-1, but you need to enable 48-bit LBA support via a registry change. If you want the large disk as a slave, then that should be easy.

2 Hard Drives
Is there anything currently on the large drive? If not, or if you can save it elsewhere, that makes things easier. Basically, I would want the answers to Does it support large drives, or did you need an overlay for that? (If no overlay, you use FDISK. If there's an overlay, quite frequently it's better to use

Copying Large files disconnects drive
We currently have 8 drives that are either 2 or 4 gigs in size. I've bought a couple 72gb drives to run mirrored and want to remove the older drives entirely. I'm not overly familiar with ufs dump but it looks as though it will copy any 1 partition to another. My question is can I copy the root partition to the new

Installing a Large hard drive
Lance Jacobs [Symantec] ljac...@symantec.com symantec support win3x qa database general symantec support dos qa database general Today I copied a database to a large drive and suddenly started having a problem. Here are the facts. The database version is Q&A DOS 4 and Q&A Windows 4. That is, it is meant to be used

External Hard Drive used for System Backup.
Is there a problem putting Linux on a large drive above the 8 gig mark? Or maybe something else...? There is no way you will boot linux this way and I don't think NT would see past the 1024 cylinder and you can't put fat16 past that either. You didn't say what you need the fat16 stuff for.

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
Edward J. Neth ej...@netscape.net intel motherboards pentium_ii It depends on your definition of large - no version of Windows95, no matter what the patch, will support a drive larger than 32 GB. "Hans Hansen" <Hans...@ynn.com> wrote in message news:3960C262.CB178EEA@ynn.com... Hi Abhi, What you need is the FAT32

large hard drives
(He won't go for Linux) Ok, finally the question: What is your recommendation for getting this machine, and Windows 98, to recognize this large drive? I'm confident that I can get Windows 98 up and running on his 3 Gb hard drive, but do not want to proceed until I know that I can also get the 80 Gb mounted.

Concerned about partition stability
ASP about installing NT on large drives. This leads to an updated ATAPI-driver which I put on a floppydisk. It's possible for me to insert a bootdisk and it will boot from it. But when I boot from the CD-ROM drive and press 'S' to specify a mass storage controller for my cd-rom, it claims that it can't do so since

Large hard drive support
Net microsoft public windows vista general From: "Bob Campbell" <b...@bob.bob> Sounds like the drive is formatted as FAT32. FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit. Copy everything off of it and reformat it as NTFS. You don't have to move data off the drive and reformat. Just use the CONVERT.EXE utility on that drive to

Large Hard drive
For recording applications, you'd save power, but I don't know how long a laptop drive would last, if it is constantly spinning down and spinning up again. SSD drives based on flash, can have power usage less than those figures. But they also cost a lot of money, to get a large drive. If using an SSD for the task,