re: Svchost vague
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 9:01 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6157 messages posted)
What size is the HDD and how/what size(s) is it partitioned in? If you are dealing
with a 48 bit LBA issue which was active on the partitions and you reinstalled W2K,
you well may not be able to see the extended partitions. XP with at least SP1 will
be able to see them on install.
Not so much a reliablity issue as one of dealing with an old operating system on
newer hardware maybe. Many things are difficult to troubleshoot from a forum. Would
be easier to see if one could "get their hands on" the particular machine and software
being used.
There are difinite do's and don'ts on W2K versus XP. Even with SP4, W2K won't enable
48 bit LBA automatically so if you have extended partitions and logical drives, you
may not see them, or may/can corrupt them. On the other hand, you can enable 48
bit LBA in W2K and they should come back but, it is always a gamble at best so one
should always back up the data or move it off the drive(s) until W2K and SP's are
installed and 48 bit LBA enabled. Then you can recreate the extended partitions
and drives, move your data back on. Otherwise, you may well have issues. Slipstreaming
SP 4 into a new install CD helps, but you still have to enable 48 bit LBA in the
registry before you try to work beyond the 137 gig barrier in W2K. It isn't the
same for XP SP1/2. MS enabled 48 bit LBA on install in SP1 and 2 for XP.
That said, you can do some "hacking" in the install registry for W2K so that 48 bit
LBA is enabled on installation if you want and have the experience. That probably
would help you on the dissappearing partitions/logical drive problem for W2K IME...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q305/0/98.asp&NoWebContent=1
And this discussion for modifying W2K and making a new install CD to see drives bigger
than 137 gig when installing W2K:
http://msfn.modrica.com/board/lofiversion/index.php/t75713.html
There are ther guides for modifying W2K setup to recognize large disks if you Google
for it.
48bitLBA.com has info to I believe, but not an anser to install W2K and have it recognize
disks correctly from the installer. MS could have made this small change and added
it into SP3 and 4 but didn't. :-( Maybe for the fact that older BIOs' may not support
it anyway.. Who knows??
On Monday, April 21, 2008 at 6:02 pm, Dave wrote:
>
>As always, thank you fine gents of Annoyances.org,
>
>Consider that over. I decided for fresh W2K, and that is what brought me never seen
>enigma. Prior of that, I've (Always use this Boot CD) used Bart PE boot disk to
backup
>some important things and setups. So I did. But after W2K was finished, I can no
>longer access 2 particular partitions! They appear as uknown file system!
>
>But XP SP2, normally presents those two partitions and even more so, I can use then
>as I did before. Both NTFS to be exact. Tried all usual chkdsk routines, but really
>can't quite grasp why W2K no longer can access them. He makes them visible, but
you
>can use them.
>
>I don't like this, doesn't sound reliable, and all those partitions where originally
>made with W2K.
>
>Please advise? Do I transfer all files to another drives, then again reformat those
>partitions and return data back for w2k to see those files again? Why is it that
>W2K no longer can use those?
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- re: Svchost vague (Dave: Monday, April 21, 2008 at 6:02 pm)
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