Re: Moving large NTFS drive to another computer - 2 hours of errors?
From: Andy (1_at_2.3)
Date: 10/23/04
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:01:55 GMT
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:47:58 -0400, "BeamGuy" <no@spam.com> wrote:
>We have a large 160 Gbyte hard drive that was formatted on one system and
>loaded with data files. The drive was then moved to another Pentium 2 era
>system and installed. On the first boot it said "new hardware found, must reboot".
>Then on subsequent reboot it said "converting drive", then after a minute started
>scrolling large numbers of uninteligible messages that scrolled by too fast to read
>for over two hours.
>
>Now when we look at the files it appears that over half are corrupt.
>
>Can someone shed some light on this?
In order for Windows 2000 on the Pentium 2 era computer to access past
the 137GB boundary on large hard drives, two conditions must be met:
1. Installation of SP3 or SP4.
2. Entry of EnableBigLba=1 in the registry
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098>.
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