[RESOLVED] WinNT Server / 10.2 gig IDE HD

[D.O.A.]

Is there a limitation as to how large an IDE drive one can install WinNT Server on?
I cannot successfully install it on a brand new Maxtor 10.2 gig IDE, but have no problems with the 3.2 gig Western Digital. Have tried formatting with FAT, as well as NTFS (preferred), but to no avail.

H-E-L-P !

[tknofile]

To my knowledge there are no limitations on drive size within the OS itself. Since you didn't specify what generation of system board you have, I can only guess that the bios tops out at 8.4gb. Check it out. If this is the case, you'll need drive overlay software to get the xtra 2+gb.

[D.O.A.]

Sorry . . the MLB is an Intel SE440BX-PA.
And I have flashed the BIOS w/the latest update.

[keystone]

The way I understand it NT 4.0 will only do 4.3 gigs, you will have to make multi partions. Keystone

[Robert J Smith]

I just added a 18gig Ibm ultra scsi drive
to a machine over the weekend, used NFTS
and it see 17.5gigs under the harddrive
properties, It was not the lead drive though
maybe that could had something to with, I would look into the bios on the mb, how much shows when you auto detect the drive ?

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[Craig Coomber]

As with most things NT - service pack!

SP4 removes a limit to 8.4GB on IDE drives.

NT can deal with something like Terrabyte drives, but MS forgot big IDEs!

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Craig Coomber
Arcas Computing Ltd.

[Sergeant Fury]

If you are using intel's older PIIXIDE drivers, they will only support 8gigs or less. I would suggest installing the latest service pack and using ATAPI instead(remember to turn busmastering on afterwards).