Boot conflicts with large capacity drives

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I have been installing a WD 160 gig drive to replace a 6 gig drive. However,
the system locks up while booting up. Through much trial and error, I
discovered that W2K with SP1 works, but once I upgrade to any of the other
SP's, the system has troubles. Does anyone know what is going on and what is
the workaround?

Thanks
 
I have been installing a WD 160 gig drive to replace a 6 gig drive. However,
the system locks up while booting up. Through much trial and error, I
discovered that W2K with SP1 works, but once I upgrade to any of the other
SP's, the system has troubles. Does anyone know what is going on and what is
the workaround?

Thanks
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Does sound strange that anyone is using SP1. It may not work but do try this

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
reboot
 
To see a disk above 120GB in full you need SP3 or higher. You really cannot
do much in terms of updating your system with SP1. In fact SP1 is a poor
excuse for a Sevice Pack. Get to at least SP3.
 
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