Increasing available memory in ntfs system

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Fredrick Woodson

My hard drive(ntfs file system) with 40 Gig capability is
restricted to a 2 Gig ceiling. The drive was orginally
formatted as Fat 16, but was converted to ntfs under an
erroneous thought that such would raise the 2 Gig
ceiling. Any help available on beefing up my available
memory?
 
Fredrick said:
My hard drive(ntfs file system) with 40 Gig capability is
restricted to a 2 Gig ceiling. The drive was orginally
formatted as Fat 16, but was converted to ntfs under an
erroneous thought that such would raise the 2 Gig
ceiling. Any help available on beefing up my available
memory?
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First, either it's a misconception on your part, or just typing faster
than you're thinking. With the exception of virtual memory, memory is
considered storage space on your RAM chips, not on your hard drive.

So, to increase the storage on your hard drive to the full 40 GB, you
have a couple of options:

1. Using fdisk, create an NTFS partition on the remaining 38 GB of the
drive.
2. Purchase Partition Magic and let it resize your existing partition to
the full 40 GB.

In either case, you *may* have to flash your BIOS so it will be able to
'see' the entire disk.

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Go to your computer manufacturer and get an update for your BIOS. Your BIOS
most likely won't let you see above 2GB. Also, that may not be the
problem. Since you converted your drive to NTFS, you are using the same
partition. You will have to try using a partition resizer program. Or you
will have to delete your partition and start over again. If you repartition
it and it still is only at 2GB, you may need to update your BIOS, or enable
large disk support.


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null said:
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So, to increase the storage on your hard drive to the full 40 GB, you
have a couple of options:
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I think he may be talking about file size restrictions in FAT.
However he may have thought avi's could exceed the limit but I think
they have their own limitations beyond that of the file system.
 
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