Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[GCC Consulting]

> 
> It can definitely read >2GB files using win95b as the 
> desktop, reading a 3.1GB file on a win2k NTFS share.  I've 
> done it.  You can't copy it to the local vfat32, but you can 
> read it streaming over the network in Media Player.  Not a 
> problem.  (It was an MPG, Jay, not an AVI.)
> 
> Actually, that's partially misleading--you -can- copy it to 
> the vfat32--or at least start it copying--if you start it as 
> a push TO the win9x system, rather than a pull from that 
> system.  If you hop on the win2k system and push it over, it 
> starts copying.  I figured it would corrupt the FAT and I 
> didn't want to risk the system, so I aborted within a few 
> seconds--but it would start it.
> 
> Someone with a system they don't mind potentially killing can 
> test that model the rest of they way, if they like.  :)
> 
Mark,

If I have a chance this weekend I ma try this for you.  One of my clients just
Junked a P133 and I pulled the hard drive.  I was going to reformat the drive.
It is fairly new and would will make a good spare or maybe I'll install it into
one of those USB kits.  Any way, I won't mind seeing what will happen.

As an aside, the NY Time had an article on the front page about something I have
been railing about for a long time.  How to archive all of this digital
information people have been accumulating.  It seems that the Library of
Congress has a couple of committees trying to come up with some sort of standard
so that in 10 years, 20 years, etc, there will be devices that will be able to
read this stored information.

As the pointed out, a faded picture or ink document can be read; a degraded
writable CD or a scratched cd can be unreadable and useless.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting