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NT 4 and 160 Gig hard drives

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mistux

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I just installed a Western Digital 160 Gig into a NT 4 (workstation) with service patch 3 and formated it to NTFS, and it only shows 130 Gig!

I know some space is lost in the format process but not 30 Gigs!!

Any ideas??
 
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Don't think NT has 48 bit LBA support (introduced with SP3 in 2k and SP1 in XP, long after last NT SP(6)) - so it won't see more than c. 128GB for IDE drives.

Presume the bios can see the full 160GB?

PS. Your NT should really be running SP6!
 
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