Memory

[Jess]

I have an 80G hard drive when I installed Windows the
jumper setting were wrong and it installed with a 32G
limit. I have now changed the settings so that the
limitation in no longer there. Window still indicates
that there is only 32G. Is there anything I can do
other than format and reinstall everything?

Thanks for anyone who takes the time to read this.

 

[Jerry]

Nope - start over.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

If you are formatting your partitions with FAT32 within the WinXP
installation process, then the limit is 32GB, you'll either have to format
the drive NTFS, create multiple partitions or boot with a Win9x recovery
diskette and format the whole drive FAT32. Don't know what the wisdom was
behind limiting WinXP to a maximum of 32GB FAT32 partition, but that's what
they did. NTFS is more stable, more forgiving and more error
free/self-correcting, plus it allows use of security features and encryption
(only on XP Pro for encryption).

 

[Jetro]

The wisdom is simple: huge both a cluster size and a partition table, wasted
space, and low performance on the large FAT32 volumes without any
recoverability.