fdisk update for hdd greater than 64Gb!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

thought that this info & link would be useful to a few members with huge ones!
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q263/0/44.ASP

[SCompRacer]

A WinME boot disk works too...seems to run a little faster than a Win98 boot disk also.



[This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 19 March 2001).]

[Gurm]

IMNSHO (That's "in my NOT so humble opinion"), you shouldn't be using a hard drive that big with a retrograde OS like Win9x anyway.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[isochar]

I've recently done several clean installs on my gaming machine...

It seems that NTFS can format a blank drive SOOO much faster than formatting it with FAT32. (My 40gig is formatting with FAT32 right now, 55% done )

However, Win9x/ME still is the way to go for gaming. (Even with nvidia's excellent Win2k drivers)

[SCompRacer]

Win2000 is on my 90GB RAID 0 and Win98SE is on a 30GB partition of a 60GB RAID 0.

[Gurm]

I have yet to find a game that runs better on Win9x.

I'll take the added stability of knowing that a game can't hose my system in trade for a couple fps any day.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Paulr]

I'm with Gurm on this one.
I'm yet to find a game that made me wish I'd kept Win9x on my system for gaming.
So, I don't reach 100fps on every single game I play, but I'm yet to find a game unplayable.
Stability over 10% fps gain wins my vote every time.

[DentyCracker]

pr0n hehe.
Some games like Fifa2000 do NOT run on win2k period.
Luckily Fifa2001 is out, is better than Fifa2000 and runs great on win2k.
I can't imagine running win9xpos on such a large HD
If you intend to run win2k and games why get a Radeon?
Partition magic is good, but you always have fdisk. BeOS is the best HD utility to have around. I have saved quite a few "dead" disks with it.

[Novdid]

I agree with you but if you have a radeon thats not the case. And fdisk sucks, i use Partitionmagic. Much better.

[This message has been edited by Novdid (edited 20 March 2001).]

[High_Jumbllama]

Some people just download too many MP3s and err umm other stuff.

[SCompRacer]

Don't assume too much here, I don't have scanner or digital camera support in Win2000 yet.

And I don't do MP3's or other stuff either.

[DentyCracker]

We was just funnin' wit ya

[isochar]

That's pretty sad... a good handful of companies haven't released good drivers for Win2k and it's already been out for a year.

[SCompRacer]

No big deal, DentyCracker. I just happened to buy drives when the bigger ones weren't that much more.

I can extract images from the digital in Win2000 without the Kodak software, so maybe it's just new scanner time and dump Win98 for good.

[This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 21 March 2001).]