Re: NT40 and big IDE disks
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Originally posted by Ghost_25inf
Sounds to me that your Bios is in need of an update. Ok try this reboot your computer then when prompted to hit the F2 key in there you can reconise your hard drive or attempt to change the size of the hard drive. If that doesnt solve it try you need a new bios chip or OS. also try useing win2000 that might do the trick it worked for me. I had NT and it didnt show my entire HD so I installed 2000 and that solved the problem.
Here is the *real* solution for your NT problem when installing NT it does not use the latest drivers from the service pack (so you start with some service pack that was available when you bought the CD). Now during install NT's old driver does not support drives bigger than 8GB so you will have to install the ATAPI device driver from microsoft service pack 4. See article Q197667 (this can be moved by M$ since I looked at it) you will find a detailed explannation there. Here's a summary of what to do:
On NT4.0 Workstation and server:
Download the atapi.exe from microsoft...
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt...tapi/atapi.exe Sorry ppl this link is down, perhaps M$ stops supporting NT4.0?
search the file on SP4 CD.
add the copy to a blank Floppy disk, run atapi.exe on the disk, it extracts the driver. Restart with the setup disks from NT.
When asked for detection of mass storage devices press S
when setup lists devices found normally <none> , press S again and insert the disk with the driver we created with Atapi.exe, press ENTER twice
after setup reads the driver press ENTER to accept.
setup no lists the device driver as installed driver, press ENTER to continue, NT setp prompts you to insert the disk again at the copy phase after you have chosen to partition a HDD.
So you don't need to install Win2K to solve this prob... ;)
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For the 40 GB disk it's a translation prob (like said before)