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HDD format?
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 1:18 am
by PreDatoR
I got an 80 gig Maxtor on my server... When i loaded Win2k Server up i partioned it to be 5/75 5 just for the OS and the rest for storage... I tried formatting the 75 gig side and it tells me the volume size is too big??? So i say oh well splitthat into 2 chunks 37.5 each... I've formatted a 40 gigger before with no partitions so i know this has to work but it don't tells me the same shit again what gives here? I haven't installed SP2 yet could this be the problem... I'm dumbfounded on this...
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 6:58 am
by Insane Morphius
Pred,
really cant help ya bud as i dont know jack about W2K, but I really had crappy attempt at my 160GB Maxtor. Took about 4 hours and a couple phone calls but finally got it all on one partition. Just wanted to let ya know that I feel your frustration.
Morph
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 8:34 am
by DocSilly
PreDatoR
Do you try to format the 75GB with FAT32 ? Win2k has a limitation that doesn't allow it to format it (but it can use big FAT32 partitions), you can use a Win9x bootdisk and format the 75GB partition with FAT32.
Another limitation is that Win2K artificially limits the size of FAT32 volumes that you create with Win2K. Although Win98 and Win9x OSR 2.x can create FAT32 volumes as large as the theoretical maximum of 2TB (the practical maximum is 127.53GB), Win2K limits FAT32 volumes to 32GB or smaller. Although this limit isn't likely to affect the average user, hard disk capacities are increasing so quickly that this limitation could affect future users. (The average hard disk size on new workstations is 13GB to 20GB, so a 32GB volume isn't unrealistic.) This artificial limit is Microsoft's method to steer users away from FAT32 and toward NTFS for large Win2K volumes.
However, if you have an existing FAT32 volume that is larger than 32GB or you want to create a new FAT32 volume of this size, you don't need to worry about Win2K's 32GB FAT32 boundary. This limitation applies only to new partitions that you use Win2K to create. Fortunately, Win2K can easily use all existing partitions (even those that are larger than 32GB) that you created under other OSs and disk-management utilities.
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 8:43 am
by PreDatoR
Hey Doc i was formatting it with FAT32 i figured that out last night... Typical MS BS i tell ya.... Gonna format it with a Win98 disk tonight... Its just for storage so it don't need to be NTFS i want to be able to get to it in DOS just incase the OS crashes or soemthing...