slave hard drive 32g limit

[J.JJ]

because of a problem on one of my computers, i have been forced to add the hard drive ( 250g ) as a slave on my other computer which has a main hard drive of 25g capacity.

in my computer i only have access to 32g, i remember reading somewhere that you have to make some sort of change within windows xp in order to access anything above this 32g ceiling.

i would be very grateful if anybody could help me gain access to the rest of this hard-drive.

john

[ACtheTROLL]

There are a few ceilings knocking about
the 0-7.8 - is int13 which is down to the bios (and possibly the mobo) - generally needs the bios updating

the next is up to 7.8 -137.4Gb which is LBA 28
and over 137.4 req lba48 ....

fat 16 has a partition limit of 2 Gb in dos and 4Gb when created in win 2000

Now the $16,000,000 answer

fat 32 has a max partition size of 8Tb
EXCEPT when the partition is created using Windows XP

... if it is ..... the max partition size is ......... ta daaaaa
32Gb !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the fix is either format as NTFS - or use a windows 98se bootdisk to create the partition (also applies to USB discs)
or use partition magic, acronis O&O or any of the other partition managers

see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463
if you don't have a 98 disk
http://www.bootdisk.com/

[J.JJ]

Many thanks AC seems to be OK now.

You obviously know what your talking about, so you might like to hazard an idea or two about the problem on my other computer.

I will submit the problem seperately under the title " FROZEN CURSOR " , I would be really grateful if you or a n other could solve this problem.