Big harddisks under Windows 2000 SP4

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Oliver Ekeis

Hi everybody,

I got a problem with Windows 2000 SP4:
I want to use a harddisk with 200GB capacity.
If I start creating a partition, Windows lets
me only create a about 130GB-partition. Doing
the same under Win98/WinME works fine with the
full capacity. Formatting the ready created
partition under Win98/WinME works, under
Windows 2000 it does not.

The other thing is: If I create the partition
with Win98/WinME, format the partition so the
harddisk ist ready for copying files on it, put
the ready created harddisk into the Windows-2000-PC
and start copying files, everything works in the
beginning. After exceeding an unknown limit, I
assume it is the limit of 130GB, the copy-process
hangs. The only way to get back to Windows is
to reset the pc. But in that case the complete
partition is deleted.


My questions:

Is there any patch the makes it possible to work
with such big harddisks under Windows 2000 and where
can I find it?

Ist this a known limit/error within Windows 2000?

Why does it work with such old operation system
like Win98/WinME and does not with Windows 2000?

Thanks for any help in advance.

Oliver.
 
Hi everybody,

I got a problem with Windows 2000 SP4:
I want to use a harddisk with 200GB capacity.
If I start creating a partition, Windows lets
me only create a about 130GB-partition. Doing
the same under Win98/WinME works fine with the
full capacity. Formatting the ready created
partition under Win98/WinME works, under
Windows 2000 it does not.

The other thing is: If I create the partition
with Win98/WinME, format the partition so the
harddisk ist ready for copying files on it, put
the ready created harddisk into the Windows-2000-PC
and start copying files, everything works in the
beginning. After exceeding an unknown limit, I
assume it is the limit of 130GB, the copy-process
hangs. The only way to get back to Windows is
to reset the pc. But in that case the complete
partition is deleted.


My questions:

Is there any patch the makes it possible to work
with such big harddisks under Windows 2000 and where
can I find it?

Ist this a known limit/error within Windows 2000?

Why does it work with such old operation system
like Win98/WinME and does not with Windows 2000?

Thanks for any help in advance.

Oliver.
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You need 48 bit LBA support for disks larger than 137gb.

Fixed in W2K SP 3 & later. See:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098&Product=win2000


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(e-mail address removed) (John Thow) wrote in
You need 48 bit LBA support for disks larger than 137gb.

Fixed in W2K SP 3 & later. See:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098&Product=
win2000
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Oh really? Fixed, eh? I just installed a 250 gig drive on a system
running 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 streamlined into the install
so it didn't have to be applied after installing 2000.

I still had to apply a big disk registry patch provided by Maxtor
before it would recognize more than 128gig formatted capacity.
 
Using big hd's I checked the registry settings, as shown by MS kb 'enable
big lba' , the entries required weren't there. However my lge hd's were seen
in win.
 
I just attached a 200Gb drive to my win2000 SP4 and the install was
transparent and it recognized all 200 no problem.

Mike
 
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