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Re: Overcoming 8 Gb limit

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From: sdsdsdsd
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


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> 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.
> >
> >
>
>
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