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Old August 24th 05, 02:19 PM
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I think I'd feel a little bit better off helping out Mark the Barely
Competent than Mark the fool.

Oh well.

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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No - there was a 32GB limit, and an 8GB limit - and even a 2GB limit
(FAT16) - anything else is either hardware/BIOS related, or artificial.
the next limit above 32GB is 128GB (or thereabouts) where FAT32 begins to
run foul of space - but that's another matter altogether.

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"Rick T" wrote in message
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64 GB is a Win98 limitation of some kind, I vaguely recall.

Rick


ng_reader wrote:
Yes, it could be that the drive is bad, but I think you may have a
misunderstanding somewhere.

There has never been a hard disk that held 64 gigabytes of data.

40,60,80
but never 64.

Does your FDISK (command prompt FDISK, menus) see the whole drive, or
not?

Again, sorry for the slow reply.

Perhaps you ought post in the other NG as well.
"Mark the fool" wrote in

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hey,

thanks for getting back to me. your right this did take ages. microsoft

suck

as they actually referred me to this page for help and they didnt

answer

my

question. great company eh?

anyhoo on with my reply. i actually got the disk blank and loaned it to
my
friend who put 64 gigabytes of data on it for me. when i installed it

windows

me stated it was not formatted and i formatted it (duh!!!!). after this
it
only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte.

cheers again for getting back but any other help would be appreciated.

mark

"ng_reader" wrote:


Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster

response. I

thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
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"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in

message

news
I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now

gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my

40Gb

disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and

only

recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for

this

(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be

most

appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm

lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens

when

you

right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is

some

not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've

just

made

a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.









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Old August 24th 05, 07:50 PM
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That's your problem, not his.

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"ng_reader" wrote in message
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I think I'd feel a little bit better off helping out Mark the Barely
Competent than Mark the fool.



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Old August 24th 05, 09:42 PM
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I thought the British had a sense of humor?

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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That's your problem, not his.

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I think I'd feel a little bit better off helping out Mark the Barely
Competent than Mark the fool.





 




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