re: Need Help Installing Onto a Second HD
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
If the computer has a 3 gig drive, then I doubt that your BIOS can handle an 80 gig
drive. Putting it in as a slave may work on some machines but you will find that
when you try to cross a certian allocation barrier (addressing) on the drive, it
will corrupt. You can't switch drive letters on an install of W2K or XP. It will
always need the same drive letter to be assigned. You can do a repair install to
correct this, but if the BIOS isn't correctly handing the large drive initially,
then this won't work either.
Post your machines specs (make, model etc) or look up the the motherboard or system
on the manufacturers website to see if it can larger drives or and post it here.
SOmeone may know whether it can handle large drives. If it needs a BIOS update
and non are available, then you are stuck with partitioning at the size the BIOS
can handle (usually around 8 gig for real old systems or around the 32 gig in the
later BIOS'). The rest of the drive will be wasted. You won't be able to partition
your way out of the issue as it is totally dependent on what the the BIOS can handle.
No way around it as W2K and XP will not play well (or at all in some cases) with
overlay software that would enable the total size of the drive to be used, such as
with Win 95/98.
Also check the drive for a 32 gig limit barrier restriction jumper on the drive.
Some drives will have them so that it will be more compatible with older systems
that have the 32 gig limitation. Try setting the jumper for the 32 gig limit and
try installing again. If it works, then you have a BIOS issue and you won't be able
to use all of the drive. If it doesn't, then you have deeper issues..
On Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 2:51 pm, Spunker88 wrote:
>I have an older computer with a 3gb harddrive and Windows 2000. I got a 80gb HD
that
>i want to replace the 3gb with. If i put it in as a primary HD, my bios doesnt want
>to work with it, but if i put it in as a secondary HD, it works fine.
>
>I want to be able to install Windows 2000 onto this HD and make it my primary HD.
>The only way i can get Win 2000 to install is to make this 80gb HD the e: drive.
>But then when i put it in as the primary hd, nothing works b/c it switches drive
>letters from e to c.
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