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To: Spots who wrote (6061)	2/7/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

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 tried a clean install to master drive. I told NT to delete the existing FAT32 partition. Then when I try to create a new NTFS partition NT will not let me. I get to the screen where I can input the new NTFS size. NT shows I have an 8 gig and change drive and offers a 16 gig and change partition size. It tells me to enter the size of my choice but will not accept keyboard input. Zeuspaul

To: Spots who wrote (6061)	2/8/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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