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re: Svchost vague
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 11:19 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave
(49 messages posted)
Thanks again CK,
Strangely how routine things sometime go into air, when occupied with other affairs.
Indeed, you make a great point about 48-bit issue. Needles to say, completely forgot
to path that obligatory routine in fresh W2K. I’m switching for WS2003, like the
environment and mostly have developer guarantee drivers for my work gear would be
supported for next 5 years. Besides, strikes me as most enjoyable after my beloved
W2K.
As for NTFS episode…
I’ve used :
chkdsk /i /c /v /r x: and then : chkdsk /x /v /r x:
(Indexing was put to sleep)
This sorted (for now) everything.
As for your question. 2 drives, 250GB each. Problematic partition is 172GB and other
less then 100GB. Ironically each on different drive.
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On Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 9:01 am, C K wrote:
>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
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>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
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>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??
>
>
>
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- re: Svchost vague (C K: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 9:01 am)
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