Subj : Continuing "drive size" problems To : All From : Glen Date : Sun Mar 04 2001 04:18 pm From: Glen I want to thank all those who have suggested solutions for my problems in getting NT4 to recognize a new 20Gb drive. I appreciate the effort you have all gone to. After a very frustrating period of exploring every suggestion made, I regret to have to report that nothing has worked. For anyone who may have missed the extensive previous posts on this issue, I will summarize in the hope that there may be someone who has solved this problem previously... The machine I am looking at dual boots to both w98 and NT4 workstation. These OS's reside on two partitions (FAT & NTFS) on a 4Gb primary master drive. There is a 6Gb secondary master drive, split into 3 x 2Gb FAT partitions for data and apps shared by both OS's. The seemingly simple task was to replace the 6Gb drive with a new 20Gb unit. The BIOS recognizes the drive as 20Gb. W98 recognizes the drive as 20Gb. NT4 only recognizes ~8.1Gb At the time of the drive's installation, NT4 was patched to SP5. It has since been patched to SP6a with no effect. The atapi.sys file was even replaced with the version from SP3 at one stage as this was suggested to have working >8Gb support. I attempted a long and tedious clean NT install to the 20Gb drive with patching etc. but this achieved nothing. 3rd party partitioning software was also suggested. 4 different products have been tried (3 downloaded demos, and Partition Magic 5.0 which cost me!), and none have made any impact at all on the problem. So long as the primary and extended partitions remain under 8Gb, NT4 will work with them fine. Attempting to partition with PM5 from within NT4, also only offers 8Gb to be partitioned. As soon as any formatting of anything happens beyond 8Gb, the entire drive vanishes from NT's view. Even when partitioned with PM5 from within W98, on reboot to NT4 neither Disk Admin nor PM5 could see the drive at all (supposedly not even installed). As this is not a boot drive, and does not contain the NT4, or any other operating system, the Int13's 7.8Gb limits don't apply. As W98 can see the drive fine, the BIOS is also clear of any blame. Again, I'm sorry if you've heard it all before... but of all the avenues I've explored for help with this issue over the last couple of months, this NG has by far been the most responsive. Most have simply told me that it does work, despite the infuriatingly obvious fact that in this case at least, it doesn't. I only hope there are some more suggestions...? Regards, Desperate. (formerly known as Glen) --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .