[AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk

Are you trying to install to the full 160 gig?  If so, don't do that JC.
Create a 4, 6, or 8 gig partition, and install the OS to that.  Preferably
install software to another partition (on another drive if possible.), and
then create a 'Data' partition.

The smaller OS partition size may sound like folklore, but there are reasons
for everything.  In the Root drive case, when you 'format' a drive, it
builds a 'Table of Contents' for the drive.  (If you look at a drive with
Windows 2000, which is completely blank/freshly formatted, you'll see that
several megs are already used, that's the partition info.  The larger the
partition, the bigger that database is going to be, and on top of that, the
more time it takes to find things.  (Indexing on a larger database is
slower, right?).  

Also, I have talked to a few developers, here and there, and have found that
many are using FAT32 drives, instead of NTFS.  I HIGHLY recommend that
everything get's set to NTFS, that can be.  There are utilities available
(free ones) that you can install on 9x OSes, that enable them to read NTFS,
which eliminates the only concern of using NTFS.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:39 PM
To: AccessD
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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