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Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
Robert Baer robertb...@earthlink.net alt os windows2000 Colin_D wrote: The guy upstairs wrote: hi all i got a new 300 gig drive that i want to install w2k on. is there anything special i have to do to format a large drive. i would rather not partition it. You cannot format a drive partition bigger than 137GB with

large hd and bios
When I got my new system, I couldn't budget for replacing my two IDE disks with SATA disks, but did need to add a large drive for sample library use as I'd overflowed the partition I'd been using on the 200GB drive before the system migration. I wanted to create as big a sample library partition as I could afford

Dual Boot Win98SE and NT4 and a Large Disk Drive
Harry Ohrn harry...@webtree.ca microsoft public windowsxp general Twanny getting the largest drive possible means getting the largest drive your motherboard/BIOS can handle not the largest drive possible to purchase. Four years ago a 20GB was a large drive and 40GB was about the biggest that motherboard

Reinstall Windows
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Clean install of 98/Large Drive?
Edward J. Neth net...@etown.edu alt sys pc-clone gateway2000 A real Mb (megabyte) is 2^20 bytes; drive makers quote "megabytes" in units of 10^6 bytes. That's the discrepancy you note (an 8.4 billion byte drive is really just about 7.8 real Gb. etc.) As for large-drive support, you'll need one of the following to

NEW VOLUME means what?
Frank Sexton fsex...@concentric.net comp os ms-windows nt misc Installation procedure for a large drive, which requires a boot floppy to boot NT: The "problem" is that NT cannot BOOT from a drive that is too large. You can however format a very very large drive as long as it isn't your boot drive.

Large drive support - 6bb yes, 6bb v. 1.0 no!
Folks, I have a client who wants a DOS program to read the sector and cluster info for very large hard drives. He's using Int 13h calls, and says he has a problem when the drives are larger than 8 GB. I have a 45 GB drive, but no one partition is larger than A typical size (>8 GB) where LBA addressing must be used.

Partition for One Large Drive in your NT system possible with ...
Note:You must have Win95b or later to use large discs/partitions over 2.1gig your motherboard and BIOS must support large discs as well. There are advantages to partitioning large drives that may not be evident at first.Keeping you primary partition to a reasonable size,in my case on my 4.3 gig drive 1gig,if my

Read large drive info?
Eric Legge legge...@aol.comnojunk alt windows98 Subject: Reading large hard drive From: "Clarence DeBoef" clar...@netins.net Date: 16/01/03 12:53 Pacific Standard Time Message-id: <b0764t$qe...@ins22.netins.net> I got a new 20 gig hard drive. Windows 98 only reads 2 gig of it. How do I get Windows 98 to read the

Question About VA-503+ and Large Drive Support
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Which external hard drive?
You cannot expand the windows partition, to utilise the full disk size, if you have installed with a sp level of win that doesnt support large disks, I didn't know I wanted to install W2K on the STATA HD, a 320G WS SATA drive. I had some fun trying to get to a point where the OS install asked how I wanted to

How large a hard drive can be put on a P3V4X?
Note:You must have Win95b or later to use large discs/partitions over 2.1gig your motherboard and BIOS must support large discs as well. There are advantages to learning to Multiple partition large drives that may not be evident at first.Keeping you primary partition to a reasonable size,in my case on my 4.3 gig

Dual Boot with large drive
G drive that has the C drive information on it and H drive that has the E drive information on it. The first update (one week after making the initial backup) took a grand total of 1 minute to complete. Of course, my computer is new and as such it is not loaded down with large quantities of software/folders/files

Large Hard Drive on an Old system
I thought that a workaround might be to buy a new large HDD and fit it in the computer as the D: drive. Install Windows from her original XP disc and then copy the entire C: drive onto the new large drive. Then remove the old small C: drive and re-fit the large drive as the C: drive. Is this going to work? No.

large drive install
Was it the enclosure and drive? Don't know. I have always heard that USB2 measures faster than IEEE1394 for typical burst file transfers; however, IEEE1394 is faster at sustained large file transfer. On the other hand I use USB externals for audio all the time with never a problem. I have also used USB externals

Harddrive Concatenation to product one large drive
I'm probably not being much help, but from the way I read your steps the initial configuration of the drives was on a PCI based controller card (I would assume with its own BIOS). On re-install you moved these drives (or at least the large drive) to a different controller. The large drive was partitioned/formated

Large HD Fix & Removable drive support
This is not a problem with windows XP, as it has allowed me to partition, format and mount the drive. You installed XP on HIS machine?...even though the BIOS wasn't able to see it? Ok, finally the question: What is your recommendation for getting this machine, and Windows 98, to recognize this large drive?

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
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Disk size??
... http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q153/5/50.asp Additionally, you may be loading some drivers within Windows that permit using large HD's (translation It is partitioned so I can see the entire drive as C: This week I booted and got a Can't Find Sector error. If you hit IGNORE, it boots fine.

Is it possible to "clone" a WinXP installation onto a larger HDD?
Roderick W. Smith rsm...@psych.colorado.edu comp os os2 misc In message <408s5h$...@nntp5.u.washington.edu> - k...@cac.washington.edu (Kenne th Oakman ) writes: I have gotten several suggestions about using a large hard drive (850 meg) with os2. The generl thread was a conflict in the way that OS2 looks at the bios