Installing vista 32bit in an over 2T volume

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hello

i use a 2.5T raid 0 (stripping) and i want to install vista 32bit on this. I
read that there is a physical restriction at 2T volume for vista
installation. Is this refere for the system boot partition only or for the
total size of the raid ?

thanks
 
bill said:
hello

i use a 2.5T raid 0 (stripping) and i want to install vista 32bit on this. I
read that there is a physical restriction at 2T volume for vista
installation. Is this refere for the system boot partition only or for the
total size of the raid ?

thanks
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You definitely won't have problems if you use the raid for storage and
another 80GB disk for the system partition. I think the limitations
question is clear to you. If not, just Google to know the reason behind
the limitation. It helps to know...
 
If i use only 2000 GB from the total raid volume disks, will it work as a
boot disk with vista x32 ?
 
Could you explain the rationale for a raid 0 of this size?
Why do you think for what sounds like an individual user there will be
significant, as opposed to imaginary, performance gains compared to using
one new 1-1.5 tb drive? Have you read the reviews of some of these
drives---they spec out nearly indistinguishable from Raptors.
How are you backing up a Raid 0 array of this size?
If you are an IT person setting up a networks server I would not want to be
the client . . .
 
bill said:
If i use only 2000 GB from the total raid volume disks, will it work as a
boot disk with vista x32 ?
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Yes! you can theoretically. I haven't tried it myself.
The question is why would you want to take such risk?

Standard BIOS usage of MBR dictates that you cannot *boot* from a drive
larger than 2TB. This isn't an OS limitation - but a limitation of every
CMOS BIOS.

The only solution is to use EFI BIOS that supports GPT partitions. At
the moment only apple, Itanium, and a few other server hardware vendors
support GPT booting.

Like I earlier suggested in my previous post, use a smaller disk to hold
the MBR and boot from there. You can then use your 2TB RAID as storage.

Alternatively, you could even install Linux on that smaller drive and
use a boot loader to select whatever OS you put on your 2TB RAID. This
require some little hard work though!
 
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