ME limit to HD capacity

Godfodda · 02-07-02, 05:55 PM

My father recently had a problem with his system not recognizing all the space on his new 160G HD. This is FYI for anyone who may be interested.

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Well I finally figured out my new hard drive problem and thought it
might be of so use to you in the future. The new hard drive is a Maxtor
160 gb. When I originally installed it I partitioned it in to 4 40 gb
partitions. I had a lot of trouble with the last partition. What I
learned today is that the version of Windows ME that I have only
recognizes 137 total gb in any configuration of partitions. So the last
40 gb on the old setup wasn't recognizable.
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DarkArctic · 02-07-02, 07:05 PM

Ya, that's one of the limitations of FAT32. All the more reason to migrate to Linux of XP. I don't know what the limit of NTFS is but it's biggly huge.

-DarkArctic

Maddman · 02-07-02, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by DarkArctic
Ya, that's one of the limitations of FAT32. All the more reason to migrate to Linux of XP. I don't know what the limit of NTFS is but it's biggly huge.

-DarkArctic

4 TB

02-07-02, 05:55 PM	Thread Starter #1
Godfodda Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: right behind you...	ME limit to HD capacity My father recently had a problem with his system not recognizing all the space on his new 160G HD. This is FYI for anyone who may be interested. --paste-- Well I finally figured out my new hard drive problem and thought it might be of so use to you in the future. The new hard drive is a Maxtor 160 gb. When I originally installed it I partitioned it in to 4 40 gb partitions. I had a lot of trouble with the last partition. What I learned today is that the version of Windows ME that I have only recognizes 137 total gb in any configuration of partitions. So the last 40 gb on the old setup wasn't recognizable. --end--
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DarkArctic Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada	Ya, that's one of the limitations of FAT32. All the more reason to migrate to Linux of XP. I don't know what the limit of NTFS is but it's biggly huge. -DarkArctic __________________ "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had." -Linus Torvalds My Heatware \| Overclockers.com Front Page \| Folding for Team 32 \| You Are Here
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