NT and Hard Drive size

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Name: Tony black
Date: December 7, 2000 at 10:43:41 Pacific
Subject: NT and Hard Drive size

Comment:

I took a 3gig hard drive with Win NT 4.0 installed and I took an image (norton Ghost) of the 3gig and put it on the 14 gig on a brand new macine. However, when I reboot, the Disk Administrator only sees 8 of the 14 gigs.

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Response Number 1

Name: ntnt
Date: December 7, 2000 at 11:09:35 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Try to use disk administrator to format the
driver. A driver letter may be assigned, however, if it is not formatted, you can not see it.

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Response Number 2

Name: Soko08
Date: December 7, 2000 at 12:54:51 Pacific

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Go into your bios and change to LBA for your new drive. That should fix the problem.

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Response Number 3

Name: lm-s
Date: December 7, 2000 at 13:12:12 Pacific

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Not having used Ghost etc. to transfer NT to another (larger...) HD, I'm posting in order to get some clearer understanding of this issue, as it involves going from a 'small' (less than 7.8Gig HD) to a larger (in excess of 7.8Gig) HD.
Is this a problem related to the NT issue with drives in excess of 7.8Gig... might not Service Pack 4 and above be involved/required???
Check out this issue at John Savill's FAQ's:
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13894
part of the http://www.win2000mag.com site...
And for interest...?
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13857
Would like to know the explanation/resolution for this... One day 'may' need to go the same route?

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Response Number 4

Name: BZ
Date: December 7, 2000 at 22:40:07 Pacific

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I had the same problem trying to install NT on a 20 GB drive. Nt only recognized 8 GB until I installed Service Pack 6, and that solved the problem.
Hope this helps.

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Response Number 5

Name: M Molina
Date: December 8, 2000 at 16:15:08 Pacific

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1m-s and BZ make sense.
Nt need Service pack 4 or greater.
However during installation, you could use atapy.sys from service pack 4 instead

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Response Number 6

Name: jj
Date: December 15, 2000 at 07:24:38 Pacific

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Hi, I have the same problem. My HD is 20G.
But during installation,I tried to install atapi.sys, it said "...specified controller not found on the computer.."
Any idea? Thanks.

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