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NT 4.0 doesn't recognize 40 GB HDD
Name: Sriram Date: March 4, 2002 at 03:19:37 Pacific
Comment:
40 GB HDD was split as 2 GB Dos partition and the remaining was left unpartitioned.
After completely installing NT, the disk administrator showed only 8GB of HDD.
The same HDD, on installing Windows 2000 Professional showed correctly, the remaining unpartitioned space.
As John Savill advises - SP4 (or later) will do the trick.
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Response Number 5
Name: Walied Date: March 18, 2002 at 01:33:10 Pacific
Reply:
The reason you see the rest in Win2k because win2k support fat32. And as they said SP4 to Sp6a will fix it, but still you may have some problem.. Let us know
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