Thanks for the good information

[Guest Bill]

The soruce of difficulty and final solution, along with potential scenraios

dicussed along the way wer great...cut them all out and pasted into ref doc

for future referral since I also use and like win2k.

 

Was just preparing to upgrade hdds since digital photographer now.

 

So far none were larger than 80G.

 

I was trying to determine whether there were any limitations in win2k for

HDD capacity, only clue was hits to need for updates on an ata133 pci carrd i

have on hand, hadn't used to this point.

 

Sticking with ultra ATA100 and max 120GB for now, since with upgrade to

newer system in a year or so will likely be going to xp anyway. Don't want

to have memory fail me on this limit and lose valuable data while in process

of dumping it into the drive, like Zeke did. Without intimate knowledge,

easy thing to happen.

 

Comment if any of you are involved with MS knowledge base.

 

Searching with the following string should easily bring up an article

regarding the 137GB limit, but doesn't....had to go to user group to find

you..should be easier for major limitation like this, since not realeased

into service pack or patch...

 

Here is the string that got me nowhere:

"windows 2000 hard drive capacity limit" in retrospect, perhaps should have

added word "size" but think enough was there to send of beg red flag in the

search engine to get me to knb article on the regfix...it wasn't...

 

fyi

Also sticking to less than 120G for now since can't seem to find any larger

ones for sale where users don't flag comments about reliability...actually, I

don't see any comments about drive death below 250GB...but not going there

till xp now...

 

no email please

thanks

Bill