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Large Partion under Windows XP

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barbary

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I have serveral win 2000 Pro machines with large hard drives. To make them recognise the hard drives and correctly create Fat 32 partions greater than (I think) 138Mb I have to download an Intel update.

Next week I am putting a 300Gb drive into an XP machine and plan to have just one partion on it.


Do I still need to download the Intel update to do this under XP??
 
windows xp artifically limits all fat32 partitions to 32GB or smaller. The reason is to force people to use NTFS which is ALOT better filesystem. I would highly recommend only using NTFS unless the partition needs to be read by a non NT based OS, like when dual booting when windows 9X or sometimes linux. That is the ONLY reason to still use such an antiquated filesystem.

If still you want FAT32, you must first install SP1 to get support for larger than 132GB, and then you must use another OS to make and partition the drive. You can download a win98 boot disk to accomplish this at www.bootdisk.com
 
If you can get XP with service pack one in it you can just do an install right off the CD.

My OEM of XP is SP1 for one of my systems and it worked flawlessly on my 160GB RAID array.

My question is can I use that CD with my NON SP1 licences so when I upgrade the wifes HD I can get her a big one?
 
Originally posted by: tm37
If you can get XP with service pack one in it you can just do an install right off the CD.

My OEM of XP is SP1 for one of my systems and it worked flawlessly on my 160GB RAID array.

My question is can I use that CD with my NON SP1 licences so when I upgrade the wifes HD I can get her a big one?
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I believe you'll run into activation problems if you do that. You could, instead, user her non-SP1 version to create an SP1-slipstreamed installation CD. There are a number of good online guides for the procedure. In fact I think there is one here at Anandtech.

Ernie
 
Man I must have had a blonde moment. Obviously the partion created is NTFS as Fat 32 ones can't be created that big.

So are you saying that XP with SP1 can handle thise larger harddrives and the large partions created??
 
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