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Article #772Re: Overcoming 8 Gb limit
From: sdsdsdsd
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:00
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This is a solution for NT .. what about Windows 95 ?? or Win 98 ??? Also it I dont need to boot up from this drive. ( DESKSTAR 25Gp - DNJA 351520 - 15 Gig)... so is there a way to get Windows 95 to recognise it ... I dont want to use it under Dos .. Its is only goint ot be used for storage purposes? Regards, Andrew. Andrew.Skannavides@solution6.com <msedlak@clev.frb.org> wrote in message news:s0cl03d0hu227@corp.supernews.com... > > St๏ฟฝphane VANDENBOGAERDE wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I just bought a 18 Gb IBM hard drive, and my NT SP5 recognizes only 8 Gb. > > For my first disk of 10 Gb, I made FAT partitions of 2 Gb, and the disk > > administrator says "8 Gb", but I can see a piece of my last partition. > > Obvioulsly, the disk administrator wasn't planned for HD > 8 Gb !! > > For my 18 Gb HD, it displays only 8 Gb.... (not partitions yet). > > I have an Abit BH6. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > We solved that problem by getting a copy of file ATAPI.SYS dated 10/21/98. > It goes into the WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory. You may be able to find > it on the Microsoft site. This gets around the 8.4G limit somehow. The FAT > partition will not be greater than 2G. That's a limit to the FAT file > system. In order to use the entire hard drive you have to load the new > file, then convert to NTFS, then expand the partition. > > Good luck. > > > > > > > ------------------ Posted via CNET Help.com ------------------ > http://www.help.com/
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