Re: Disk partitioning size

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There was a problem with the 137GB barrier and hibernation or creation of memory dump files when SP1 was first released but that was addressed in late 2002 or early 2003 with a hotfix.

Other than that you are the only one who reports this behaviour with your tests. Where are the tests and reports from all the others? Why are there no confirmation of this by experts in this field? Why are none of the hard drive manufacturers reporting this? Why is this information not available 48bitlba.com? Why are there no articles on the Microsoft Knowledge Base or on Technet about this? Why is it that this was never reported by any of the major computer manufacturers and why is it that none of them even have a mention of this on their web site? Why is it that this isn't reported by any of the printed or online business or computer publications? Why is it that this isn't reported by any of the Microsoft critics out there?

Do you seriously think that such a serious problem would have gone unnoticed for more than 7 years and that by chance you have discovered and are the only one to know of such a major flaw with Windows XP installations on large disks? This Big LBA problem has been with us all along with Windows 2000 and it was present when XP was first released and everybody knew about it.

As for your assertion that Vista cannot properly handle 48-bit LBA that is just plain untrue. Few Windows versions have been so scrutinized and criticized as Vista, 48-bit LBA was old news and mainstream when Vista first appeared in beta release, if such a major flaw existed on Vista it would have been quickly exposed during beta testing and none of the critics would have let this pass and go by unnoticed, Microsoft would have gotten hammered over it!

Your claim that nobody knows about this because they buy computers with Windows installed on large drives and it takes users a long time for their drives to fill up before the problem shows up just doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I know many people who have bought Vista machines on 250GB hard drives and in a matter of a few months their drive was filled to capacity with movies and music files and their disks did not fail. If what you say was true *NONE* of the computer manufacturers would want to suffer the complaints and wrath of the consumers over this problem, not a single one of them would ship a computer with Windows installed on anything bigger than a 120GB drive, all the manufacturers would explain this to their customers and customers who need more storage capacity would be sold computers with multiple hard disks. Such a major problem would be reported all over the internet and it would even make headline news on CNN! Your tests simply do not support the facts and the experience of others out there.

John

Randem wrote:
I get these new Vista boxes in my shop and the owner complains that they copied large amounts of data to their hard disk then they mysteriously cannot boot their computer... hmmm. I repair these computers because Windows messed up their file system and soon as I fix them they can mysteriously boot... These MUST be accidents...(sarcasm). You can nay-say all you want but you mysteriously do not do any test... Why is that? Would a test destroy your mis-believe world?

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