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to: John Beckett
from: Thees Peereboom
date: 2004-01-23 21:33:06
subject: Re: Upgrade PDC NT4

From: Thees Peereboom 

John,

Ok, thanks for this. I'll be prepared...

- Thees Peereboom

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:14:05 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

> 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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