Installing Win2k on brand new drive

[Guest Davet102]

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]

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]

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]

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?

 

 

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[Guest nesredep egrob]

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

 

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