Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Taupter
> 240 heads x 63 sect/track x 1023 cyls = 15467760 total sectors > How can I use the missing 2.5 GBs? > The machine is a rather up-to-date PIII. It came with NT Wstn preinstalled, > and that saw all 10 GBs. After I erased NT and tried to reinstall it > (surptise, surprise), the NT installer only

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:45:14PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > From: Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > [WinNT] ... cannot install onto a partition larger > > than two gigs > > That can't be right. I created, formatted, and installed > onto a 4GB partition with Windows NT.

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [WinNT] ... cannot install onto a partition larger > than two gigs That can't be right. I created, formatted, and installed onto a 4GB partition with Windows NT. Daniel

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Tamas, do NOT trust the NT installer. It is a known bug in pre-SP4 winNT that it CANNOT SEE more than 8 gigs of a drive. A workaround is to install WinNT onto a small partition (it also cannot install onto a partition larger than two gigs... ) and then resize the partition using a recent (and p

How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-06 Thread Tamas . GAIDOSCH
Hi folks, I got a 10 GB IDE harddisk (/dev/hda), but cfdisk 0.81 of slink only sees approx. 7.5 GB of it: 240 heads x 63 sect/track x 1023 cyls = 15467760 total sectors How can I use the missing 2.5 GBs? The machine is a rather up-to-date PIII. It came with NT Wstn preinstalled, and that sa