Help. I'm building a new rig and I'm installing Windows 2000 Pro on a 200gb drive. When the operating system creates the partition space it only sees 130gb of the drive. The bios however does see the full 200gb. Is there anyway to create one partition of 200gb? Right now I am just formatting the 130gb and hope that I can change a registry setting to get the rest for a 2nd partition but I'm not sure if that will work or if it's the best way to do this.
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Windows 2000 and a large HD
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when i first got my 250 gig western digital hdd, it came with a pci controler. So when windows installed, you would have to hit F6 during setup, and put in the controler card floppy and what not, then windows would see the full 250gigs. Then you could remove the controler card and it would work fine on the normal ide connector on the mobo. I think if you get win2k with sp4 slipstreamed into it, it should work alright.....
Oh P.S. what type of drive is it? If its WD, use the included floppy to format it, and just install windows on the partition you created.
Oh P.S. what type of drive is it? If its WD, use the included floppy to format it, and just install windows on the partition you created.
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Another option would be to just make a smaller partition to install windows on. Then after you boot into windows with sp2, use something like Partition Magic to make the partition the full size of the drive.
Dark Ember said:Another option would be to just make a smaller partition to install windows on. Then after you boot into windows with sp2, use something like Partition Magic to make the partition the full size of the drive.
under 2k i think that the most current service pack is 4.
But yes that is a good option, just use windows to make the partition, and after install create another partition to fill up the remaning space.
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you could also throw that drive in another box and format it to the max... then throw it in the 2k box and install 2k on it w/o a format... not sure if that will work but it sounds like it would...
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motherboard?
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spotdog14 said:under 2k i think that the most current service pack is 4.
But yes that is a good option, just use windows to make the partition, and after install create another partition to fill up the remaning space.
Yes it is, but service pack 2 or newer is required to see 48-bit LBA drives.
Dark Ember said:Yes it is, but service pack 2 or newer is required to see 48-bit LBA drives.
ah so i see, i was not aware of that, thanks for the info!