Dynamic disk equivalent in NT?

[JEDI]

My C: drive is 4 gigs and out of space. i want to add another 4 gig HD, but i want it to be part of the c: drive.

ie: i want to see a 8 gig c:

possbile?

 

[JEDI]

found out why Extended Set wouldn't highlight. I had to press CTRL and highlight the 2 drives 1st. ARRG

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: XFILE
My C: drive is 4 gigs and out of space. i want to add another 4 gig HD, but i want it to be part of the c: drive.
ie: i want to see a 8 gig c:
possbile?

No, not possible with 2K/XP either, you can't extend the boot volume. And with NT your stuck with that 4gig partition unless you Ghost the image over to a larger drive (the NT install intitally formats as FAT16 then converts, so it's limited to 4gig).

Bill

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: XFILE
My C: drive is 4 gigs and out of space. i want to add another 4 gig HD, but i want it to be part of the c: drive.
ie: i want to see a 8 gig c:
possbile?

No, not possible with 2K/XP either, you can't extend the boot volume. And with NT your stuck with that 4gig partition unless you Ghost the image over to a larger drive (the NT install intitally formats as FAT16 then converts, so it's limited to 4gig).

Bill

I HATE that... talk about annoying.....the install even says it will format in NFTS but still manages to FUBAR everything...


Where I work tons of pcs have multiple pcs have two or more partitions....I saw one with 4 the other day


Can't wait for the win2k rollout

 

[Goosemaster]

AS for your question, partition magic might be able to pull it off after the install, but you'd have to check...NT is quite dated in that respect....

 

[bsobel]

I HATE that... talk about annoying.....the install even says it will format in NFTS but still manages to FUBAR everything...

Yea, it first setsup fat and then converts, so your stuck with the fat16 limit. I don't miss NT (but I don't miss the 9x platform even more!)
Bill

 

[Nothinman]

AS for your question, partition magic might be able to pull it off after the install, but you'd have to check...NT is quite dated in that respect....

PQMagic won't help because his disk is only 4G, he wants to concatinate another disk onto the first one.

 

[NogginBoink]

First off:

You can't create a volume set on the boot/system partition. What happens if the ftdisk.sys driver (manages volume sets), or any boot start driver for that matter, gets laid down on the second member of the volume set? The OS won't be able to find the second member of the volume to load the file until ftdisk.sys is started. Classic chicken and the egg problem here.

Second, NT4 won't support a system partition larger than 7.8GB. See Q224526.

 

[Abzstrak]

Partition magic will work if its a single drive... the maximum boot size of NT4 is 16GB, not 7.8.... I've got quite a few now running at 16GB. Of course this might be dependant on the BIOS of the systems....

Also, during the install you can specifiy a new atapi.sys from sp4 (or higher) and get a 7.8GB parttion maximum during install rather than 4gb.

 

[Nothinman]

the maximum boot size of NT4 is 16GB, not 7.8.... I've got quite a few now running at 16GB. Of course this might be dependant on the BIOS of the systems....

It's wherever the 1024th cylinder lands, which in 99% of the cases is ~7.8G. If you make it bigger, it will work for a while but as soon as some file gets pushed past the 1024th cylinder by any software installation it will fail to boot.