re: Configuring large external hard drive
Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 8:27 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11744 messages posted)
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John
It sounds like you may have a older PC, your BIOS must be up to date and can take
on the 48bit.
You can use the tool in win2k to find out all about your PC, Start>Programs>Acc.>System
Tools>System Info it will tell all.
You can type winver at the run command or CMD and then type ver
Your best off to partition the new HD into 80gb. ea. it's no big deal to have many
partitions to a point.
It will help when you run defrag on them.
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On Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 6:25 am, John wrote:
>Hi - I've got a new 250GB EXTERNAL HD (USB2 and firewire, I'll be using it on firewire)
>on the way to me, and have just found out via other posts in this forum that W2000
>may have trouble recognising such a large disk.
>
>After reading up a bit, I've added the EnableBigLba line to my registry, but am
unsure
>as to whether I should format the new drive in FAT32 or NTFS? I'm assuming that
my
>internal 20GB HD is formatted in NTFS, but don't know how to find out for sure...my
>system is 5.00.2195, Service Pack 4.
>
>I would much prefer to use the external disk as a single partitioned drive if possible,
>purely for backup of large files, photos etc.
>
>I don't want to make a hash of the formatting, so advice from the old pros would
>be welcome, thanks. John
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