Re: 160gb drive seen as 127gb - under windows 2k

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers

Should I even ask WHERE you are downloading 9gb's from?

J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 160gb drive seen as 127gb - under windows 2k


> One thing to watch out for:
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> I lost a load of downloaded (and not yet backed up) MP3s yesterday
when
> I reinstalled Windows 2000.  The disk holding the MP3s is a 160Gb
drive,
> and is only used for this - windows is on a physically different disk.
>
> Apparently, Windows 2000 has no support for drives above 128Gb, until
it
> has been patched with Service Pack 3 or later.
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> After I had installed Windows, but before patching, the machine was
> rebooted, and decided that my MP3 drive had errors, and
"moved" all my
> "orphaned" mp3 files into their own directories - which I
could not find
> anywhere on the machine afterwards.
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> Now I have to download that lot again :-(  So beware - if using Win2k,
> make sure you get the service pack on straight away.
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> I'm sure NTL are going to have a good moan when I do another 9Gb
> download ;-)
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> Mal
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> Jim Noble wrote:
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> >John Andrews wrote:
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> >>Hi Group
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> >>I remember someone suffering from this the other week, but can
find the
> >>posts.
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> >>I have a drive (basic) that is 160gb, but I can only make
partitions
that
> >>total 127gb. I know it is not the OS as the same drive on IDE2
is 160gb.
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> >>Anyone any ideas on what I should do?
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> >http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
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> >HTH,
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> >Jim
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