partion questions

[Changlinn]

Quick question for all you partioners out there, I have now seen this work twice. A bios that only supports hard drives of like 5gb, take the 10gb hd out partion it on another computer to 2x 5gb partitions and hey presto in the old computer it has now got 2 5gb drives? the bios shouldn't let this work but it does, please explain.

Another question when is the realese for partition magic for win me so I can finally move around my partitions.

 

[AKA]

Huh? Why wouldnt it let it work? I see it all the time.

 

[Zilldian]

I've never herd of BIOS even careing about the size of the drive. The FAT table is the one thats picky about the size of the drive.

FAT16 only 2Gb per partition
FAT32 only 20GB per partition
NTFS only 2GB (with service Pack 4) per partition
(I herd that service Pack 6a supports 1600GB?? I'm probly wrong)

I might be wrong.

 

[Changlinn]

of course if the bios is too old it won't be able to recognise above a certain limit, the friend I am talking about had a 486 motherboard with a cyrix on it, and it wouldn't detect more than 5gb so when he bought a 10gb drive, he was pissed of, he put it on my computer the other day and 2 of my friends said it wouldn't work, (somone at work told me they did it) so I partitioned it into 2 5gb drives and it worked, I wanna know why, before the partition on his computer it said it was a 5gig drive on my computer it said it was a 10gig drive...go figure.

 

[hominid skull]

I'm sure partition magic 6 has already come out around the 20/10/00. It supports Win2k and Windows ME

 

[Changlinn]

I allready have partition magic 5, and one of the guys here at work answered mt question, he said use dos boot disc when it says you have to boot back to dos.

 

[Changlinn]

no one gets it do they???

 

[AKA]

You have it backwards.

If a 10gb drive is only partitioned as 2gb then windows is only gonna see 2gb, its not gonna see 10gb.

It doesnt mean that a drive bigger than 5gb wont work. It means it wont recognize a partition bigger than 5gb.

So its nothing new to what your asking. Its common. You can almost always take a bigger drive and make it work in a computer that wont recognize it as whole partition.

Like I said, have seen and done it all the time.

 

[vi edit]

Chances are pretty good that the bios won't recognize partions bigger than 8 gig, not 5.

 

[Changlinn]

So aka your saying the bios won't recognize a partition larger than 5gb, so when the friend put it in his computer he was only able to access the firs 5gb, when it was partition in to two 5gb partitions it actually thought it was 2 logical drives so it was ok with it...hmm, still don't see how as bios doesn't care about partitions.