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  Jan 17 2008, 10:06 PM
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New Member  Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Pittsburgh, PA Member No.: 184,245  |
-------------------- Digitally Challenged, Bob C.
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Jan 18 2008, 12:02 AM
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 Senior Member Group: BC Advisor Posts: 513 Joined: 15-July 06 From: In the middle of Kansas Member No.: 76,380 |
Might be a BOIS as well as an OS limit
There is a 137 gig limit with older BIOSes. Considering that the system is abought 8 years old now it is a good possibility |
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Jan 18 2008, 02:14 AM
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arachibutyrophobia Group: BC Advisor Posts: 4,370 Joined: 4-March 05 From: Northern CA. Member No.: 13,532 |
Yes you can get around this by using two partitions.
-------------------- Supposing is good, but finding out is better. -Mark Twain
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Jan 18 2008, 05:36 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Pittsburgh, PA Member No.: 184,245 |
Thanks, Eyesee. A digitally literate friend installed it for me using the MAX-Blast prog. included - could not figure a way around it, and he built the computer. I don't think I'll run out of Gigs soon, just looking for possible fix - not to trash the machine. If everybody wasn't dropping the 9x OS, wouldn't need to change. Thanks, again, from...
-------------------- Digitally Challenged, Bob C.
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Jan 18 2008, 10:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: BC Advisor Posts: 513 Joined: 15-July 06 From: In the middle of Kansas Member No.: 76,380 |
Max Blast is a dynamic drive overlay program that basically "tricks" the BIOS to address a larger hard drive than the system can support. Not recommended. But it does work
Probably your only alternative in all honesty Now you have the problem that ME is only going to address that 137 limit too Partition it as DC3 said. I assume that your friend did a reparition and full reinstall. He would have had to if they used Max Blast to see the full capacity of the drive. Keep us posted on your porgress You are on the right track This post has been edited by Eyesee: Jan 18 2008, 10:20 PM |
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Jan 19 2008, 06:22 AM
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 Senior Member Group: BC Advisor Posts: 535 Joined: 28-January 06 From: Australia Member No.: 52,817 |
As said, create a second partition in the remainder of the drive. Don't try to create a partition greater than 137GB in WinME.
Some useful information here: http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm Particularly notice the cautions about use of the system utilities. -------------------- Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Jan 20 2008, 07:51 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Pittsburgh, PA Member No.: 184,245 |
Thanks, All, for the info and link. Looked at the 48bitlba info - learned enough that I'll let things go as is. My Guru mounted the drive as a slave(I think), using another(2GB) drive, which was the master, formatted, then cloned the OS from the 2GB to the Maxtor, then switched them so the Maxtor is now the master, the 2GB - the slave. If I had to do it over, might have done otherwise, BUT, am not too digitally WISE. Thanks, again Bob C.
-------------------- Digitally Challenged, Bob C.
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