ManiacMonkey
Senior member
Problem solved. Just use NTFS with Quickformat. I didn't know you can Quickformat a brand new drive. ^_^
Just bought (2) Quantum Fireball Plus AS 40GB drives today and went ahead to set them up in RAID 0 using Windows 2000 "dyanmic disk" option. Thinking I've done all that it asks of me, it goes ahead and starts formatting. After which it completes it tells me that the volume size is too big! 🙁
My question is, isn't Windows 2000 capable of supporting very large volume sizes? I tried creating a 60GB striped partition and the end result was the same. Currently, it's formatting a 40gb striped partition. Hopefully, it won't say this is too big either.
I'm striping the drives on Promise ATA 100 card. And, yes I've looked into modding it to do RAID, but that involves soldering and flashing bios and I don't feel like doing that. 😎
Input appreciated. 🙂
current system:
Celeron 600
Tyan Trinity 400 w/ VIA 4in1 drivers
512 RAM Infineon
AIW Radeon
SBLive! Platinum
Netgear 10/100 NIC
Promise ATA 100 controller
350W Enermax PSU
Just bought (2) Quantum Fireball Plus AS 40GB drives today and went ahead to set them up in RAID 0 using Windows 2000 "dyanmic disk" option. Thinking I've done all that it asks of me, it goes ahead and starts formatting. After which it completes it tells me that the volume size is too big! 🙁
My question is, isn't Windows 2000 capable of supporting very large volume sizes? I tried creating a 60GB striped partition and the end result was the same. Currently, it's formatting a 40gb striped partition. Hopefully, it won't say this is too big either.
I'm striping the drives on Promise ATA 100 card. And, yes I've looked into modding it to do RAID, but that involves soldering and flashing bios and I don't feel like doing that. 😎
Input appreciated. 🙂
current system:
Celeron 600
Tyan Trinity 400 w/ VIA 4in1 drivers
512 RAM Infineon
AIW Radeon
SBLive! Platinum
Netgear 10/100 NIC
Promise ATA 100 controller
350W Enermax PSU
