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Dave
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:
32gb Limit |
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Hi,
I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the Award BIOS will
only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP, which is working
fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
Dave |
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Jerry
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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You can either see if the motherboard manufacturer has updated the BIOS to
support larger hard drives or you can buy a PCI controller card that
supports larger drives.
"Dave" <me@home> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the Award BIOS will
only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP, which is working
fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
Dave
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NoNoBadDog!
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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"Dave" <me@home> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the Award BIOS will
only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP, which is working
fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
Dave
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You need to format the drive as NTFS, not FAT. FAT volumes are limited to
32GB.
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Brian Gaff
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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Hang on, that's not right, coos I have an 80gig fat 32 drive on this machine
I'm typing on, and its still got 75 gig free!
I do know there are limitations to file sizes though.
Brian
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"Dave" <me@home> wrote in message
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Hi,
I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the Award BIOS will
only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP, which is working
fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
Dave
You need to format the drive as NTFS, not FAT. FAT volumes are limited
to 32GB.
Bobby
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Bob Willard
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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Brian Gaff wrote:
| Quote: | Hang on, that's not right, coos I have an 80gig fat 32 drive on this machine
I'm typing on, and its still got 75 gig free!
I do know there are limitations to file sizes though.
Brian
XP will only format a HD as FAT32 up to 32GB. But if a HD was formatted |
with FAT32 using some other formatting utility (e.g., FDISK) which can
handle >32GB, then XP will use that pre-formatted FAT32 HD.
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Yves Leclerc
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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FDISK is not a format utility! It creates a partition, that's all!
This would indicate that the drive was set up with a version of Windows,
other than XP. Microsoft has purposely place FAT32 limitions into XP.
"Bob Willard" <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Brian Gaff wrote:
Hang on, that's not right, coos I have an 80gig fat 32 drive on this
machine I'm typing on, and its still got 75 gig free!
I do know there are limitations to file sizes though.
Brian
XP will only format a HD as FAT32 up to 32GB. But if a HD was formatted
with FAT32 using some other formatting utility (e.g., FDISK) which can
handle >32GB, then XP will use that pre-formatted FAT32 HD.
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Jim Macklin
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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There are also software work-arounds, such as Maxtors
Max-Blast.
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"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> wrote in message
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| You can either see if the motherboard manufacturer has
updated the BIOS to
| support larger hard drives or you can buy a PCI controller
card that
| supports larger drives.
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| "Dave" <me@home> wrote in message
| news:eytAzUp4FHA.3000@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| > Hi,
| > I just installed an 80GB HDD in a older computer but the
Award BIOS will
| > only detect 32GB. The system is now running windows XP,
which is working
| > fine. Is there a way around this 32GB limit?
| > Dave
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Mistoffolees
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:27 am Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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Jerry wrote:
| Quote: | You can either see if the motherboard manufacturer has updated the BIOS to
support larger hard drives or you can buy a PCI controller card that
supports larger drives.
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....or the other alternative of using multiple partitions
on the hard drive. One might not need nor possibly desire
to have large, single partitions. YMMV. |
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Bob Willard
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject:
Re: 32gb Limit |
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Yves Leclerc wrote:
| Quote: | FDISK is not a format utility! It creates a partition, that's all!
This would indicate that the drive was set up with a version of Windows,
other than XP. Microsoft has purposely place FAT32 limitions into XP.
"Bob Willard" <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:
Hang on, that's not right, coos I have an 80gig fat 32 drive on this
machine I'm typing on, and its still got 75 gig free!
I do know there are limitations to file sizes though.
Brian
XP will only format a HD as FAT32 up to 32GB. But if a HD was formatted
with FAT32 using some other formatting utility (e.g., FDISK) which can
handle >32GB, then XP will use that pre-formatted FAT32 HD.
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Cheers, Bob
Right. I should have said FORMAT. |
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