Re: Disk partitioning size

BTW: The problem does not happen on a non boot partition...

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"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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