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I learned last night that windows does not like big drives, such as 300GB drives. Not just windows, but dos. It will detect it, but whatever operation you do, such as partitioning, will render it corrupted. After many hours of frustration and trying everything to image data from the old to the new, I poped it in my linux server, partitioned it, formatted it, fscked it (not what you think ) and mounted it, and boom, works like a charm. Another applause for linux. Also ext3 is way faster then NTFS at formatting. and NTFS is faster then fat32, so imaging making a fat32 300GB drive.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3417, old post ID:27506

your right red about windows and it not liking large hard drives.

but you need to use an overlay to confuse it and make it think it is just a lot of little drives.

maxtor use's one of their own for their hard drives.

but then i did not try any hard drive over 80 gb's? so not sure how the overlay system would work,

i tried to put a maxtor hard drive in this dell. it was the same type that is already in there. and the dell would not see it? as it was not formated . i wanted to format it to the ntsf of this dell. but i had to stick it in the old win98 and format it as a fat 32 so i stuck it in to the windows me computer so it could have two hard drives.

but because of that i did not think ntsf could format, atleast in this dell? but then maybe the hard drive needed that speical dell code they like to stick on all the stuff. like the ram that they use.



Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3417, old post ID:27514

I read somewhere that in Windows 2000 setup wont recognize a hard drive a little over 120 gigs and you have to install drivers from the manufactuer to get 2000 pro to recognize how large the hard drive is? I forget my source I remember reading a Seagate manual on my friends floor ater he got his 120 gig seagate, but I dont know for sure if that's where I got this info from? is this true?

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3417, old post ID:28073

Maybe it goes by partition too. At least I hope, since I want to take the 200 from the server and put it in my system.

At work I have a 200 that is partitioned, so I think I should be ok.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3417, old post ID:28075

If it is already partition I think it will.

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