windows 2000 and 300gb hardrive

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nicksinif

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i read that you have to install service pack 4 in order to get windows 2000 to recognise a 300gb hardrive, but i did that and still nothing. is there another step that i need to take?
 
Even if you install SP4, it's not going to dynamically change the size of the partitions on the drive. Go into Disk Managment, and see if it shows the full drive size.
 
its only showing as a 120gb hardrive but the real size is 300. ive already formated it previously under windows 2003 server trial edition.
 
Is your motherboard/controller card really old, old enough that it does not recognize drives larger than 137GB?
 
did your drive come w/ software so windows will see the correct size of the drive? i know my xp only saw my 200gb as a 137 (segate pata).

after installing the software that came with the drive, windows saw the full drive.
 
my motherboard is fairly new. this is the details of it
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it did come with some software but i dont know what i did with it. i have a western digital drive.
i am now wondering if there are any other known steps that i need to take after installing service pack 4 into windows 2000.
someone out there had to have tried it
 
My experience with w2k is that you need to format the HD with the disk that came with your drive. Even SP4 wouldn't recognize my 160GB as more than 137GB until I used the HD mfg's util. It is possible that you could download that utility from the web, I don't know.
 
i have formated the drive before under windows 2003 (trial), and have close to 100gb in data on the drive, so formating again is not an option.
 
You might need to make a registry change. I found this by googling for win2k large drives:

Click Start, then Run and type REGEDIT and click OK

Go to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters

Click on NEW then REG_DWORD, and set the value to 1 (On) or 0 (Off)

Also check out this Microsoft article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098
 
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