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8 GB HDD Limit NT Server 4.0?
Name: Todd Mitchell Date: July 13, 2000 at 03:08:17 Pacific
Comment:
I just put together a machine with a SOYO 5EHM Motherboard and a couple 20.5 GB EIDE Ultra ATA/66 drives. I'm running NT Server 4.0 SP6. Disk Administrator only sees 8 GB!
Although BIOS has always seen the whole 20.5 GB, I flashed it just to make sure it is up to date. I re-installed service pack 6 to make sure that is fresh, too.
I think it might be a problem with my SOYO motherboard. I installed the drivers for the board and now it takes about 10 minutes for Disk Administrator to open...my machine hangs while I wait for it to do so.
I'll be quite impressed if anyone can solve this one!
Same problem, same OS and SP but different motherboard. Try to dig to microsoft.com and you will find the answer... you must have a boot partition of max 8.x GB.
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Response Number 2
Name: Raymond Date: July 13, 2000 at 19:31:12 Pacific
Reply:
Try Using Service Pack 5 instead of 6
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Response Number 3
Name: Alby Date: July 14, 2000 at 03:39:50 Pacific
Reply:
Same problem but after having installed SP4 the Disk managaer view all the 20 Mb. Alby
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Response Number 4
Name: bobterkini Date: July 15, 2000 at 00:01:34 Pacific
Reply:
yo..
i did encter the same prob while using 8gb on a compaq machine.
but i manage to solve the prob by downloading the patches frm MS webite. sorri can't remember the site add but u can start frm this site : www.microsoft.com\technet
cheers
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Response Number 5
Name: sam towers Date: November 2, 2000 at 05:17:21 Pacific
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I have a possible workaround. It uses 2 partitions. If interested read on Basically create 2 partitions - 1 fat/ntfs, the other FAT32, then when in NT reformat FAT32 partition...here goes Wipe all partitions using Fdisk. Install nt4, using the setup program to partition/format 1 partition. Using a boot disk, run FDISK with large disk support. Partition the rest of the drive to Fat32. remove floppy, restart NT use Disk Admin to format the new partition.
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