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NT4.0 Server install to 40GB IDE drives.

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by abyte

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NT4.0 sees only 8Gb of both 40Gb drives on a new install. Is there any way around this without using a third party partition program? The plan is to use the second drive as a mirror. Any help would be appreciated.

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by cavedweller

The problem is that NT didn't recognize drives that large until SP3 and you are forced to install with SP1.

Some systems also have an 8GB BIOS limitation. If you don't see the correct size in your BIOS setup screen start by updating the BIOS.I have had success creating a small boot partition and leaving the rest of the disk unassigned. After I installed SP6a I used disk administrator to setup the rest of the drive.

I don't mirror drives, I use a RAID instead so I don't have any specific help there. You should be able to mirror at least the large partition onto the second drive once the system recognizes it.

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