Re: Large HDD

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Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:50:59 +1000

Thanks, I had a look at the link and ran rededt32 BUT stopped before
making the change only because I'm using W2k3, NOT W2k and the article
seems to be referring only to Win2k.

Is it OK to do this with Win2k3?????

Thanks again.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:03:36 -0700, "root" <postmaster@buchanangc.com>
wrote:

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>> Win2k3 is not able to format my Maxtor External HDD (200gig). It seem
>> sto be able to write to it but is unreliable, ie If I try to sync a
>> sub directory of about 60 gig, sometimes it works and sometimes it
>> gets some write error message. I have TWO and it happens on both.
>>
>> Is this a W2K3 limitation. Someone told me it has a limit of ~130 gig
>> drives it can see.
>
>With the latest SP W2K runs big HDs fine. See:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
>
>Provide more precise details about what's happening and your configuration.
>

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