Guest Bill Stock Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 A few weeks ago W2K hosed itself on my backup PC. I was able to get into the disk from a boot CD, but I could not get the disk to boot or W2K setup to see the installation. I pulled the drive this weekend and recovered the setup files I wanted to my XP machine. I also recreated and formatted the partitions I wanted in XP and put the files back on those partitions. W2K still cannot see the installation (disk unformatted or damaged), so I killed the boot partition and tried to recreate it in W2K, but I'm getting partition too big. The partition I'm trying to create is 8 GB and is NTFS. Disk is set to Auto in the BIOS (always was), so it should not be a size recognition issue. I'll try forcing LBA next. Is the XP formatting causing W2K to choke, is the BIOS hosed or is there a partition size limitation in early W2K releases?
Guest Dave Patrick Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 Re: Getting partition too big on W2K re-install (NTFS) The XP format should still work (though isn't necessary) Yes, I think your cmos setup is incorrect. Can you pull the battery for a while then reset to defaults? -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Bill Stock" wrote: >A few weeks ago W2K hosed itself on my backup PC. I was able to get into >the disk from a boot CD, but I could not get the disk to boot or W2K setup >to see the installation. > > I pulled the drive this weekend and recovered the setup files I wanted to > my XP machine. I also recreated and formatted the partitions I wanted in > XP and put the files back on those partitions. W2K still cannot see the > installation (disk unformatted or damaged), so I killed the boot partition > and tried to recreate it in W2K, but I'm getting partition too big. The > partition I'm trying to create is 8 GB and is NTFS. Disk is set to Auto in > the BIOS (always was), so it should not be a size recognition issue. I'll > try forcing LBA next. > > Is the XP formatting causing W2K to choke, is the BIOS hosed or is there a > partition size limitation in early W2K releases? >
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