re: Large drive and Win2k issues....
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 9:04 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6157 messages posted)
Depends on the age of your system. Some motherboards may recognize the size of the
drive, but may still need a BIOS update and/or 48 bit addressing enabled in the BIOS,
so check for a BIOS update anyway just to make sure. When 48 bit addressing was
added to the BIOS, most manufacturers were still not auto enabling the 48 bit option,
so check that first and see if there is a BIOS update for your machine. In todays
BIOS, the HDD will inform it that 48 bit is needed, where on, the BIOS is supposed
to enable it automatically. Not so in older machines.
IME, W2K or XP will not recognize large drives when a BIOS issue exists so make sure
that that isn't an issue. I have slipstreamed install W2K discs that will install
with 48 bit addressing enabled and will see the full size of the HDD if there are
no other hardware issues involved. Most of the time it happens on systems that are
4 or more years old but I have seen a couple of new "cheap" systems do it too..
BTW, you can't slipstream 4 SPs into the CD. I think you meant you have SP4 slipstreamed
in. You will need at least SP2 for 48 bit addressing but you can only slipstream
one SP into the install. If you have slipstreamed on top of an already slipstreamed
disk, then I would suggest making a new one and only slipstreaming SP4 into it.
They are all cumulative so SP4 already has 1,2 and 3 in it..
Enabling the 48 bit addressing after the install has taken place will only allow
you to add an extended partition and then add the extra capacity later for Windows
to see. To get the full capacity of the drive during install, SP4 must be on the
disc and the hardware must be able to report to Windows correctly. Otherwise, Windows
will not be able to recognize the full HDD capacity IME, if a hardware issue exists...
On Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 1:12 am, 2000_man wrote:
>Ok -- so here's the deal: I just bought a Maxtor 160 Gig to do a fresh Win2k install
>on. The cd I have has all four service packs slip-streamed into it. When the computer
>boots the BIOS recognizes the drive as the full 160...however when I get into Windows
>it only recognizes it as 127 (it may be useful to note that the Windows installer
>only recognizes it as 130 when I first format the drive). So I poke around on the
>internet and find the registry key change that needs to be made to enable large
drives.
> But still no luck.
>
>Is there anyway to get the thing to recognize the drive from the start, like when
>I'm installing or right after the install is done? If not then I have two questions:
>
>1) What am I doing wrong that won't allow Windows to recognize it?
>2) When I finally get it to recognize the full amount of space will that space be
>usable (since I'm assuming it didn't get formated to begin with)?
>
>I'm REALLY, REALLY trying to avoid having to partition the drive so if there's any
>way that's possible that'd be great...
>
>I know there's a few posts about this already but I couldn't get anything from them
>so any help you guys could give me is appreciated.
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