[AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at marlow.com
Sun Sep 21 22:50:47 CDT 2003


Actually, I believe FAT32's limit is 60 gig (it may be more), NTFS's limit
is in the terrabytes.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: jmoss111 [mailto:jmoss111 at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:26 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using a 160mb hard disk


I thought that there was a FAT limitation which is true for FAT16 but not
for NTFS or FAT32 which has a limitation of 2TBs.
See http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
----- 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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