[AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk

ACTEBS actebs at actebs.com.au
Sat Sep 20 10:16:54 CDT 2003


John,

Why not just partition the drive first to say a 20GB partition - leave
the second partition work until you finish loading windows. Allow
windows to install on the first partition and do not do any formatting
or the like on the second partition - this you can do when you have
finished loading windows, use disk manager to create the extended
partition after you have installed service pack 3 and it will see the
remaining 140GB partition where you can store your data, etc etc...Use
the first partition to load all your apps on...I hope what I've said
makes sense.

I think this is a more elegant solution...

HTH
Regards
Vlad

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Saturday, 20 September 2003 11:35 PM
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Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk


NTFS

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of jmoss111
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 1:18 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk


Are you using NTFS or FAT?

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:39 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk


> The hard disk on my server (a 40gb maxtor) was filled up, so I bought 
> a 160gb drive for $120 at Newegg.  It seems that Windows 2K cannot use

> any disk larger than 135gb until SP3.  Which begs the question, how do

> you install Win2K base on a disk it can't use correctly?
>
> I tried a simple install, and it tries to do a format but fails saying

> the disk is corrupted.  I'm now trying to use the original server 
> system
updated
> to SP3 to format the disk, but even assuming that I manage that, It 
> seems unlikely that I will persuade the Win2K setup disk to recognize 
> the
existing
> / formatted partition given that the setup disk is not at SP3.
>
> Is there any way to install Windows on a second drive while already
running
> Windows?  Is there any way around this or do I simply have to live 
> with booting up with the 40g drive and using the 160 g drive as pure 
> storage
once
> I get SP3 installed and the registry hack done?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
>
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