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Formating a HD to more than 2Gb
I have a PT2006 motherboard from FIC and a ST36531A HD 6.5Gb HD from Segate, and I would like to make one partition of the hole HD.
I'm using Win95 and WinNT, and have downloaded Intel(r) Bus Master IDE Driver for Windows* 95. What can I do?
I'm using Win95 and WinNT, and have downloaded Intel(r) Bus Master IDE Driver for Windows* 95. What can I do?
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JFYI - NTFS does not have a 4GB partition size limit. The problem is that the System partition cant be bigger than 4GB. Any other partition can be a big as you want. Just clarifying.
Heath
Heath
> The problem is that the System partition cant be bigger than 4GB.
True, because the installation of NT is done to a 'FAT-formatted' partition,
with one "trick" to break the 2GB limitation (inherent in MS DOS) and extend the limit to 4GB,
and then NT "converts" the FAT partition to NTFS.
A good tool like Partition Magic (http://WWW.PowerQuest.com)
can "resize" an NTFS-partition to any size,
including larger than 4GB,
as long as you have sufficient "free" space on the disk.
True, because the installation of NT is done to a 'FAT-formatted' partition,
with one "trick" to break the 2GB limitation (inherent in MS DOS) and extend the limit to 4GB,
and then NT "converts" the FAT partition to NTFS.
A good tool like Partition Magic (http://WWW.PowerQuest.com)
can "resize" an NTFS-partition to any size,
including larger than 4GB,
as long as you have sufficient "free" space on the disk.
http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm
Ralph