Sephiroth
December 6th 03, 10:39 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>If you are running fat32 on winxp then use a win98
startup
>diskette to fdisk and format the drive so that xp will
see
>all of it.
>
>If you are using ntfs disregard this message, although
you
>could partition the drive in, say, two 15 gig partitions
>or a 20 and a 10.
Actually, neither would work up to 40gb. I had this
problem with my older P2/233. When the BIOS says 30gb, it
MEANS 30gb. Your computer would beable to recognize 30gb
of it, and you could allocate that 30gb on as many
partitions as you want, BUT, the extra 10gb of space can
cause odd problems. Some of which include not being able
to defrag because the BIOS is confused and thinks (or
actually put) data is outside the partition(s) you made,
in that extra 10gb.
My old system said 8.0gb max, but all I could find were
8.4gb drives, so I bought one. Now I install it,
partition it, and format it. I had trouble defragging
numerous times, sometimes a file would get put outside
the 8.0gb boundary and a game or something would not work
until I uninstalled and reinstalled it, and numerous
other little mis-haps. I suggest getting a drive up to
the limit your BIOS supports, but not a single meg over.
>If you are running fat32 on winxp then use a win98
startup
>diskette to fdisk and format the drive so that xp will
see
>all of it.
>
>If you are using ntfs disregard this message, although
you
>could partition the drive in, say, two 15 gig partitions
>or a 20 and a 10.
Actually, neither would work up to 40gb. I had this
problem with my older P2/233. When the BIOS says 30gb, it
MEANS 30gb. Your computer would beable to recognize 30gb
of it, and you could allocate that 30gb on as many
partitions as you want, BUT, the extra 10gb of space can
cause odd problems. Some of which include not being able
to defrag because the BIOS is confused and thinks (or
actually put) data is outside the partition(s) you made,
in that extra 10gb.
My old system said 8.0gb max, but all I could find were
8.4gb drives, so I bought one. Now I install it,
partition it, and format it. I had trouble defragging
numerous times, sometimes a file would get put outside
the 8.0gb boundary and a game or something would not work
until I uninstalled and reinstalled it, and numerous
other little mis-haps. I suggest getting a drive up to
the limit your BIOS supports, but not a single meg over.