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From: terryc on 30 Apr 2010 21:50
tries to enforce 8.3 naming convention? How to fix?

I have two sata drives running off the motherboard.
The DvD writer runs off the motherboard ide.
Set up third hard disk off a SiliconImage PCI ide card.
Formatted with ntfs in one 160Gb partition.

The problem is that the system mostly thinks this is a cdrom drive.
i.e. when I try to move files with long names to it and occassionally
when the peer app does.

I know it flows from some Ms kludge to handle large disks, but how do I
get around it?
From: . on 30 Apr 2010 23:26


"terryc" <newsninespam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote in message
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> tries to enforce 8.3 naming convention? How to fix?
>
> I have two sata drives running off the motherboard.
> The DvD writer runs off the motherboard ide.
> Set up third hard disk off a SiliconImage PCI ide card.
> Formatted with ntfs in one 160Gb partition.
>
> The problem is that the system mostly thinks this is a cdrom drive.
> i.e. when I try to move files with long names to it and occassionally
> when the peer app does.
>
> I know it flows from some Ms kludge to handle large disks, but how do I
> get around it?

Does win2k have Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management?

If so, shift the DVD drive to a higher drive letter; your 3rd diskdrive
should then have
E: to it`s self.

From: terryc on 1 May 2010 05:00
On Sat, 01 May 2010 03:26:07 +0000, . wrote:

>> I know it flows from some Ms kludge to handle large disks, but how do I
>> get around it?
>
> Does win2k have Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk
> Management?
>
> If so, shift the DVD drive to a higher drive letter; your 3rd diskdrive
> should then have
> E: to it`s self.

It isn't possible to duplicate drive letters in win2k.
I did use the admin tool to partition and format the disk in the first
place, but moved the cdrom(drive letter) out of the way first

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