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31st October 12:07
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I inherited a server at the school I teach at that shows a hard drive capacity of 14 gigs. My files and other material show a total of 2 gigs being used. The computer shows that I have only 300 megs left of capacity. Where is the rest of the capacity? How do I "open" it up? Thanks so much.
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31st October 12:07
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The operating system is probably installed on a 2 gB partition. You can
partition and format the rest of your drive from within Disk Administrator. There are third party apps such as Partition Magic that allow you to expand a partition's size. With Windows NT4 the end of the system partition needs to be within the first 7.8 gB of the drive. These may also help. Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Hard Disk http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q197/6/67.asp Windows NT 4.0 Supports Maximum of 7.8-GB System Partition http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q224526 Boot Partition Created During Setup Limited to 4 Gigabytes http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q119/4/97.asp Windows NT Partitioning Rules During Setup http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q138364 -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems] capacity of 14 gigs. My files and other material show a total of 2 gigs being used. The computer shows that I have only 300 megs left of capacity. Where is the rest of the capacity? How do I "open" it up? Thanks so much. |
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31st October 12:07
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Thanks so very much.
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31st October 12:07
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You're welcome.
-- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems] |
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9th November 21:23
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Note....
NT40 service pack 4 removed the 8 gig limitation mentioned below. With service pack 4 and higher I have been able to recognize hard drives that even the motherboard would not recognize (just don't try to boot from one). As long as the motherboard can recognize the boot drive, NT will boot up and as it does, its own 32-bit hard drive drivers take over and I believe they will recognize drives up to 320 gigs, at least that is what the specs say. I have not tried it with anything larger than 160 gigs. |
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9th November 21:23
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Irregardless of the service pack level.
Windows NT 4.0 Supports Maximum of 7.8-GB System Partition http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q224526 -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems] |
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19th November 09:49
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You are so right. I am happy to hear someone finally come
forward and say what some of us have known for sometime i.e. the limitations of NT4 are dependent upon the BIOS of the motherboard and the hard drive drivers. If you will refer to the knowledge base articles you keep refering to, they reference this information in several places. In Knowledge Base Article 114841, it states "Because the 32-bit fields of the partition table refer to the number of sectors in the partition, disks with larger sector sizes translate into larger permissible partition sizes....As new hardware or software schemes become available, NTFS will be able to handle substantially larger volume sizes." Good job, Logan. BTW, Dave Patrick, no offense, but 'irregardless' is a double negative. I'm sure that you meant regardless. US;q224526 newsgroup. drive, NT will boot up |
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19th November 09:49
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Incorrect. You didn't read the article.
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