PCI disk controllers have their own BIOS, bypassing the limitations of your existing system board. brings us any help if it can not be compatible with our operating system. Visit your manufacturer's website for any updates you can apply.Īlternatively, if there is no good solution, you can purchase an ATA PCI controller (about $30 USD) and this should solve your problem. This partition magic software can help you solve almost all problems met in. This usually can be solved by updating the BIOS. It may not support drives larger than 32GB. If this is not the problem, you said you changed your motherboard. It works simliarly to master / slave only it is a secondary jumper that you can remove. YOu can change this by moving the jumpers on the back of the drive.

Many drives have a '32GB clip', and if this is a new drive, you probably have this enabled. By older I mean first generation Pentium IIIs and first generation Athlons and older. But Partition Magic and Windows XP should not have a problem recognizing the full capacity of your drive. that fateful day when Symantec bought out PowerQuest and effectively ruined that companies well earned reputation (they also created the first serious drive imaging application, Drive Image - Norton Ghost came later). Please don't! NTFS or die.ģ2GB limit is a common barrier for older systems. Partition Magic was the tool for partitioning for many years, from the day it came out till. This disk utility software runs on Microsoft operating systems and is compatible with Windows 2000 and XP but not compatible with Vista and later versions. Symantec clearly shows that Partition Magic 8.0 is NOT compatible with Vista. Are they stretching that file system thin or what?! /quote The Windows Vista Compatibility Center makes it clear that Partition Magic 8 is NOT compatible and there is no patch or upgrade.

Windows XP and Windows Me create FAT32 partitions larger than 64GB.

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