Re: Installing Win2K to a 160GB disk?

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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:39:27 -0500

Hi, ECM.

> EASY way around the issue.... I guess that would be "upgrade to
> WinXP"!

That would be MY recommendation. ;<)

I'm glad you got it solved, and thanks for the feedback. The pre-SP3
limitation had slipped mind. I considered suggested you create a
"slipstream" CD with SP4 included, but I don't know if you could even do
that on an OEM Win2K.

RC

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Microsoft Windows MVP
"ECM" <thedeepabyss@whoever.com> wrote in message 
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> "R. C. White" <RCWhite@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:<ey7jiGTYEHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
>> Hi, ECM.
>>
>> Somewhat-experienced non-guru speaking...and I haven't run Win2K since 
>> the
>> day WinXP was released, so my comments are subject to correction.  And my
>> biggest HD is 120 GB, smaller than 137 GB, where 48-bit addressing is
>> required.
>>
>> > Of course, Win2K has trouble with anything over
>> > 137GB
>>
>> No, it doesn't.
>>
>> It ain't Win2K that has problems with >137 GB HDs.  Win2K, using NTFS, 
>> can
>> handle Terabytes in a single volume, and there can be multiple volumes
>> (primary partitions and logical drives) on a single HD.  You ARE using 
>> NTFS,
>> right?  (FAT32 has its own size limits; Win98's limit on formatting 
>> volumes
>> as FAT32 is about 127 GB, according to the Resource Kits, which you can 
>> read
>> online at:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp
>> (for WinXP)
>> or
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prdf_fls_pxjh.asp
>> (for Win2K).
>>
>> The usual bottleneck is the mobo/BIOS, but it sounds like yours is
>> up-to-date enough to recognize 48-bit addressing to give you the full 160
>> GB.
>>
>> HOW are you formatting the drive?  Can't you simply boot from the Win2K
>> CD-ROM and tell it to delete all existing partitions and create one new 
>> one
>> using the entire HD?
>>
>> > so I'm loosing 20-some GB of the drive when I partition/format
>> > with the install CD;
>>
>> By "the install CD", do you mean the Win2K CD-ROM?  Or a CD that came 
>> with
>> the HD?  I don't recall, but you might need the latest Win2K Service Pack
>> (SP4?) to properly handle this large drive.  Perhaps you need a newer CD
>> that includes SP4; your CD may be over 4 years old.  :>(
>>
>> RC
> ***SNIP***
>
> Thanks for the replies!
>
> Actually, Win2K before SP3 DOES have trouble - and that's the
> issue....
>
> My Win2K OEM install disk is pre-SP1, so, when I try to do a fresh
> full install with the Win2K OEM install disk it won't format the drive
> to the full 160GB, but rather to 137GB, and I couldn't get the rest
> back. I couldn't even partition the disk to recognise all of it's
> capacity.
>
> However, I CAN (and did) put the disk into another (SP4) computer,
> format it properly to 160GB (actually, 152 GB), and then put it back
> into the new machine. I then installed Win2K without a format; it
> complained - "recognized 137GB actual capacity 152GB" (or something
> like that - it WAS 2 a.m....) and went on. I patched the new install
> to SP4; the full capacity is now available. Only 4 hours of screwing
> around.... what a pain.
>
> Anyways, thanks for the help; I was hoping someone had come across an
> EASY way around the issue.... I guess that would be "upgrade to
> WinXP"!
>
> Peace!
> ECM 

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