[SunHELP] SUNPCI II

steve price sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 25 14:08:37 CST 2001


if the install drive was fat (dos), then the limit is
2gb. if you want it bigger, you'd have to convert it
to ntfs with the convert utility.  at that point it is
still 2gb.  after the m$ o/s is installed, then you
need to use disk administrator to grow the ntfs
partition.
//regards

--- Big Endian <bigendian at mac.com> wrote:
> >All
> >
> >Has anybody created a C drive bigger then 2G Yet.
> >
> >I have created a 8G Drive but when I loaded w2k it
> made the drive 2G.
> >The docs say to use
> >convert c: /fs:ntfs
> >I have not had luck @ this. It did how ever remake
> my drive ntfs. But
> >did not grow the file system to 8G.
> >
> >Any help would be great.
> >
> >Thanks Keith
> >
> The way to do that on a real PC is to use a program
> such as Partiton 
> Magic.  This allows you to resize a partition AND a
> filesystem at the 
> same time, without reformatting.  It works well with
> any type of M$ 
> filesystem, FAT16/32 and NTFS.
> 
> Daniel Mayfield
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