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Followup - SATA Installs, SP4
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 7:59 pm
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Posted by DNA (551 messages posted)

You WOULD need SP3 or SP4 to use the full capacity of any Hard Drive (IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB) that exceeds 128 Binary Gigabytes (137 'advertised' GB).

The Windows 2000 Installer (on ANY version CD-ROM, including SP4) will not create a partition larger than 137 'advertised' GB.

Read this page:

http://www.48bitlba.com/win2k.htm

I recently fit six Win2K computers with 160 to 250 GB hard drives, and resized their single NTFS partitions (after installing Win2K SP4 and enabling the EnableBigLba registry value) to their full capacities with GParted Live (bootable) CD's.

Athlon 1.1 - 512 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home

Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro

IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2

Windows 2000 Server in the basement

Written in response to:
80 GB + SP-Zero (for two hours) (DNA: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 7:32 pm)

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W2k on SATA drives (IOguy: Mon, Nov 20, 2006, 8:50 pm)

re: W2k on SATA drives (C K: Tue, Nov 21, 2006, 8:06 am)

re: W2k on SATA drives (BrainWeasel: Fri, Jul 6, 2007, 8:03 am)

re: W2k on SATA drives (Steve: Tue, Nov 21, 2006, 3:48 pm)

80 GB + SP-Zero (for two hours) (DNA: Tue, Nov 21, 2006, 7:32 pm)

Followup - SATA Installs, SP4 (DNA: Tue, Nov 21, 2006, 7:59 pm)

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