[RESOLVED] Install secondary large IDE disk

[Elphin]

I'm running Windows NT4 SP6a booting off a reasonably quick (but full) SCSI drive. I've added a 60GB IDE drive for secondary storage.

Disk Administrator and Partition Magic 4 only allow me to use the first 8GB - how can I use the rest? I've seen articles concerning setting up a large HD as the boot drive, but not adding one to an existing installation.

Been scratching my head for days on this one, so any pointers gratefully received...

Paul

[NTTECH1]

USE under administrative tools disk manager create partitions of 2845 MB each in the 60 GB partition.format the partitions and set up the PAge File SYS memory for each partition. WINNT under FAT 16 will only the the DOS Limited Partitions on the Hard Drive. However try this link for info: www.bootdisk.com.

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[xsrvx]

If you have SP6 installed NT should see the whole drive in disk administrator and you should be able to partition the whole thing ntfs there. There must be another problem maybe whats happening is your mb bios is only seeign the drive as 8 gig and since you are runnign NT you are in luck I have a workaround that just may work for you.

in the bios set the drive to none like if you conencted it as a primary master in the bios under primary master set it to none.
make sure the board does not detect the drive and once you get to NT go to disk administrator and see if the drive does not show up as the whole drive.

[Bobity1000]

This may help:

I am running an NT4 server with 2 SCSI drives as the initial boot drives I wanted to add a 30Gb IDE drive to the secondary channel of the Motherboard this is waht I did and it worked without a hitch, sort of.

Install the HDD.
Repower.
Enter BIOS
If avaliable Select Auto for the drive size but select LBA mode.
Save
Boot to NT4
When logged on add the atapi driver for HDD's under the devices option in control panel.
Reboot the system
Log on and have a look again the HDD should be there and recognised.
Go into the Disk Administrator and see if it has worked.

I use NT Server 4 with SP4

Hope this helps.

Regards


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[Elphin]

Thanks for all the tips guys. I was fairly certain is wasn't the BIOS, but in the course of checking it out I hit upon a solution that worked for me.

1) reboot using Win98 CD
2) partition the disk using FDISK
3) reboot NT as normal
4) Disk Admin sees the entire unformatted partition and lets me format it!

When I first started tackling this, I was running SP3, and Disk Admin only saw an 8GB drive and wrote its little info block to the drive - I'm wondering if that thwarted my later attempts??

Anyway - case solved. Hopefully the above might help someone in a similar situation.

Many thanks,

Paul

[This message has been edited by Elphin (edited March 10, 2001).]