Re: OEM hard drive questions

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Folks

I just ran into this problem - had an XP CD with no service packs. My PC had been fried at the USB and Ethernet port by a close lightning strike - came in through the router somehow - nothing else hurt.

So I have a new mobo, tried to mess with the Win2K that this luddite likes and was running - 2 IDE drives that I tried to connect using adapters to SATA. Not a pretty picture.

So now I have this "little" 500GB WD SE16 - wow is it ever quiet! - SATA drive. And XP with no SPs knows only how to format to 128GB - basically the 137,000 MB you mention.

So the short story is, I went digging, found out about slipstreaming service packs into installation images, got started playing with nlite (www.nliteos.com) - which could be a great tool for enterprises that want to standardize Windows installations, BTW. And that thing has more knobs to twiddle with than DB2 on AIX, methinks!

HTH
Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> 

> Thanks Kurt. Hopefully, this PC is new enough (not quite a year) to already 
> support > 137GB. But this will be good to know if I need it. 
>
> - Dan 
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Kurt Anderson wrote: 
>
> > Whoops I sent it by accident. 
> > If you run into the 137gb limit go here: 
> > http://www.48bitlba.com/ 
> >
> > I ran into this issue a while back. Though even worse, I had a program 
> > on my computer that I never used that came with the motherboard that 
> > prevented anything larger than 137gb (boy what a pain that was to figure 
> > out). 
> >
> >
> > Kurt Anderson 
> > Application Developer 
> > Highsmith 
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > On Behalf Of Dan 
> > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:26 PM 
> > To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users 
> > Subject: Re: [PCTECH] OEM hard drive questions 
> >
> > Guys, again, thanks for all of the advice! 
> >
> > - Dan 
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