Guest Davet102 Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new computer. Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive. During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives). Is there a way to do this during the reinstall?? If not how would I get this accomplished? Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G) Help. Thanks Bob
Guest philo Posted February 7, 2008 Posted February 7, 2008 Re: Installing Win2k on brand new drive "Davet102" <Davet102@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E1FD8881-E70A-424A-90B9-6CFDDB059766@microsoft.com... > Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new > computer. > Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive. > During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust > up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives). > > Is there a way to do this during the reinstall?? > > If not how would I get this accomplished? > > Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G) > > Help. > > Thanks > > Bob > First off, since the machine is new...I assume the bios can properly detect the drive as 250gigs. be sure to check that first. If the bios detected the drive OK... then chances are you have installed an original version of Win2k... and you may want to create a new win2k cd with SP4 slipstreamed into it. However, from your post, it looks like you wanted to divide up your drive anyway... so there is no harm done. What you should do now is install SP4... then go into disk management. You should (hopefully) see the rest of the drive listed as "unallocated" space. If so, you can simply use disk management to create a 2nd partition and format it. If you now have the system up and running OK... install IE6 and then go to the windows update page and apply all the critcal updates... there will be a lot of them
Guest John John Posted February 7, 2008 Posted February 7, 2008 Re: Installing Win2k on brand new drive philo wrote: > "Davet102" <Davet102@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:E1FD8881-E70A-424A-90B9-6CFDDB059766@microsoft.com... > >>Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a > > new > >>computer. >>Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive. >>During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can > > bust > >>up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives). >> >>Is there a way to do this during the reinstall?? >> >>If not how would I get this accomplished? >> >>Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G) >> >>Help. >> >>Thanks >> >>Bob >> > > > First off, since the machine is new...I assume the bios can > properly detect the drive as 250gigs. be sure to check that first. > > If the bios detected the drive OK... > then chances are you have installed an original version of Win2k... > and you may want to create a new win2k cd with SP4 slipstreamed into it. I don't think that simply having SP4 slipstreamed to the Windows 2000 CD would do the trick, I think he will also have to change an answer file or add a .inf file to have the BigLBA registry entry written during the installation. With Windows 2000 on top of the SP4 requirements you also have to manually enter the registry entry to be able to use drives larger than 137GB. 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098 I wouldn't trust doing this biglba deal during the installation without fully testing the procedure first. I would always have a nagging doubt about the reliability of the drive, the kind of nagging doubts that I can do without! John
Guest PA20Pilot Posted February 8, 2008 Posted February 8, 2008 Re: Installing Win2k on brand new drive Hi, Can you put your new drive in your new computer as a slave and do your format/partitioning tricks from in there? ---==X={}=X==--- Jim Self AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository. http://avanimation.avsupport.com Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans. http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm Experimental Aircraft Association #140897 EAA Technical Counselor #4562
Guest nesredep egrob Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 Re: Installing Win2k on brand new drive On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:38:03 -0800, Davet102 <Davet102@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new >computer. >Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive. >During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust >up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives). > >Is there a way to do this during the reinstall?? > >If not how would I get this accomplished? > >Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G) > >Help. > >Thanks > >Bob The cure for the 131 GB is as follows Start/run/regedit (if unsure export registry for safety) select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters right click for new Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case) set value to 1 end regedit Borge in sunny Perth, Australia reboot
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