From: "Geo." 

the problems never seem to get fixed right
http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/big_disk_limitations_in_xp.htm

Geo.

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:4010d680.9673930{at}216.144.1.254...
> Thees Peereboom  wrote in message
> news::
> > The disk that will remain in the system is 10G, so I'll divide it in two
> > partitions.
>
> I totally forget the rules about when problems could occur with NT4. The
> problem is that large disks (>8G) usually want an extension to the BIOS to
> drive the disk during startup. The original NT4 (no service pack) did not
> include the BIOS extensions (which were invented after NT4).
>
> So, if you do a new install and find some weird problem on reboot, you
> might be looking at the big disk problem, and I could find my notes on the
> Knowledgebase articles.
>
> John
>

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