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Roxanne Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 15 Feb 1998 19:42:58 -0800
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We did it by having NT installed on a master disk, then formatting a > 2GB
slave disk with NTFS. We then moved the newly formatted slave disk to master on
another computer, and installed NT.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Thursday, February 12, 1998 01:49, [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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>         Hi.
>         I think to remember that a trick was mentioned here on how to
> make an NTFS partition occupy a whole >2 GB disk.
>         Since one way of installing NT is first format to FAT16, and
> later NT will convert the partition to NTFS, it starts with the FAT16
> 2 GB limit.
>         Which was the trick?


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