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hard disk limit and ntfs
Name: xavier Date: December 11, 2000 at 10:32:04 Pacific
Comment:
Hello, I've a little problem, One of my backups serveur domains have a bios limit of 8.4 Go and the first disk has a size of 15 Go. It's an IBM drive and IBM has a program to bypass bios limitations but he need a fat partition... and i really need to have one 15 Go partition with the system on it... Is someone know a program to permit bypass bios limitation with an ntfs partition ? thanks a lot.
Name: lm-s Date: December 11, 2000 at 10:58:17 Pacific
Reply:
Could you not either update the BIOS - if that's possible, to handle the larger drive; or use a Promise Controller card which may allow you use the drive as one larger partition?
Most major HD manufacturers have a program called a "dynamic disk overlay" which sets up something in the boot sector of your drive and makes OS's see the drive at the correct capacity (basically overrides the bios detection). This program usually comes with a new drive on a floppy disk
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