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36GB drive under W2K
Name: Mike Ortega Date: August 24, 2000 at 07:56:20 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Maxtor UDMA66 36GB drive that shows up as a 8GB under W2K setup if I try to use it as an NTFS boot drive. I can read this drive just fine under 98SE FAT32 as a 36GB. If I leave the drive as FAT32 and try to install W2K, the setup blue screens after it reboots the first time.
Once W2K is installed on the 8GB NTFS partition, under Disk Manager, the drive still shows up only as a 8GB with no unpartitioned space available.
Name: noen Date: August 24, 2000 at 09:46:21 Pacific
Reply:
Upgrade your bios. Some older bios do not operate fine with driver bigger than 32 GB
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Response Number 2
Name: jin Date: August 24, 2000 at 11:58:47 Pacific
Reply:
dont use the partition you want win2000 on as NTFS. Just leave it as FAT32 and it will work fine.
what you might need to do too is, fdisk your hard drive into however many partitions you want using a win98se boot disk. This way, your computer bios knows it's fat32.
then format each drive and reinstall win98se on one partition and then install win2000 on the second partition (from win2000 bootdisk) using FAT32 NOT NTFS.
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