Re: W2K Maximum Partition size with NTFS?

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Dr Zoidberg

Jeff said:
I have just fitted 2 x 160 GB Maxtor hard disks to my W2K pro system
(SP3).

Disk management will only offer to put 128Gb partition on the disks
and I can't find a way to persuade it to allow me to use the whole
disk.
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Are you sure you aren't hitting a BIOS limitation on your motherboard?
IIRC many can't handle disks any bigger than that.
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Are you sure you aren't hitting a BIOS limitation on your motherboard?
IIRC many can't handle disks any bigger than that.
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Alex

The BIOS recognises it as 160 GB, and Win98 formatted it to that size
OK so in this case I don't think it's a BIOS issue.
 
Are you sure you aren't hitting a BIOS limitation on your motherboard?
IIRC many can't handle disks any bigger than that.
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You are seeing either a BIOS limit, or a boot partition limit. Other
than the boot partition NTFS limits are in the terrabyte range.
You should be able make the second disk a full 160GB NTFS file
system.


Make the "C" (boot) partition small, 8GB or so, and make the rest of
the disk a 150GB disk.

Youi could use NT's software RAID 0 capability to combine the second
partition on the boot disk and the second disk one big ntfs
file system, nearly 300GB. YOu'be have no backup and the failure of
either disk would loose the entire file system.
 
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