I have read several articles including some from Microsoft that say that the C partition for NTFS cannot exceed 7.8 gigs. Last week one of our techs accidentaly partitioned the drive to the full 12 gigs of the drive. However when they rebooted the computer it worked just fine. So my question is, What's the problem? Is it going to error out when it tries to write to the 7801 bit on the drive?

When you say the drive, do you mean the primary drive. If you are talking about an additional drive than I think it depends on what service pack you are on...

Sorry, I should have clarified a little. the computer a a single 12 gig drive. The tech used Partition Magic to expand the NTFS partition (also the only partition on the drive) to 12 gigs. So the computer had a single 12 gig NTFS partition as the C partition. According to Microsoft and others, this shouldn't have worked.

NTFS' gets rid of those limitations. We're up to 40gigs. What section of Microsoft are you reading? Are you sure that's not outta context??? Perhaps it is referring to something else??? Thousands of large companies are approaching near terrabytes on NTFS.

according to microsoft article Q224526 the 7.8gb limit applies to the system partition only

Since the whole C drive was the 12 gig NTFS partition, that IS the system partition. These articles can still be found in Microsoft's Tech Net. Dean, are you using the 40 gig NTFS as your system partition or is it a secondary drive/partition etc?

sorry should have read your 2nd post closer check out www.ntfaq.com/ntfaq/filesystems12.html#filesystems12