volumn too large error

[J.D.]

First off, I have read nearly the entire knowledge base
and havn't found a solution yet. I have an IBM 40Gb hard
drive partitioned into 2 logical drives (C&D) with
Operating system on C. I am running Windows 2k SP2. I am
aware of the 137Gb limitation, but it shouldn't apply to
my hard drive situation. I am attempting to add a 120Gb
IBM/Hittachi ATA 100 Hard drive. I do not wish to move my
OS to this drive, just to use it for storage. I wanted to
make it one big drive, but i get error saying volumn to
large. My only two options that I can do so far, is to
make it a primary partition of 30Gb or less, or make it an
extended partition for the full size, but then make
logical drives less than 30Gb. Does anybody have any idea
why I am running into this issue? I see no limitations
listed anywhere that should force me to have 30Gb or less
drives.

Thanks in advance.

J. D.

 

[Colon Terminus]

Sounds like FAT32.

Windows 2000/XP do not support FAT32 partitions greater than 32 GB. If you
want a single large partition it's gonna have to be NTFS. Either that or
boot with a Windows 98 floppy and FDISK and Format with that. Windows will
use the partition just fine, it just won't create it.

My suggestion would be to just go ahead and make the partition NTFS.

 

[J.D.]

thank you for the help. I really no longer need FAT32
anymore, so I think I will convert all formats to it on
this system now. Previously I had not found any
documented limitation of W2k, but now that I look, i see
it all over the web, just not in Win2k docs.

Thanks again