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To: Spots who wrote (6061)2/8/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
To: +Zeuspaul (6042 )
From: +Spots Sunday, Feb 7 1999 1:57PM ET
Reply # of 6106

>>Maxtor jumpers, PM, etc.

The other jumper for Maxtors is a cylinder-limiting jumper
which will make the drive itself report that it is physically
smaller than it is, so OSs that can't handle large drives
can use it. But the rest of the drive is unavailable.
This doesn't work for me; besides NT can handle it if
you get it far enough.

NT can't handle drives bigger than 8.4 gig without the
ATA fix or service pack 4. However, it should have no
trouble with partitions smaller than that in the front
end of a larger drive. I have accessed partitions of
16gb from NT with SP1 only. Disk manager reports an
8.4 gb drive with a 16 gb partition on it <g>.
I formatted the partition with another NT machine
that has the ATAFix installed on SP3.


Here's what I did....

PM 4.0 DOS instead of FDISK.

created 512M Primary C: FAT16 for dos/95/NT Recovery
2 Gig FAT16 D: Windows NT.

Applied SP3.

Installed PM 4.0

use PM 4.0 to covert my 2 gig FAT to 13.5 GIG NTFS from NT during reboot.

no problems at all...

Sean
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