Hard Drive Sizes

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Paul Crate

Hi,

Is there a maximum drive capacity that windows 2000 pro supports.

I have just bought a 200gb IDE drive and 4 250gb SATA drive.

When I put them in, Windows 2000 just sees them as 127Gb Capacity....


Any clues

Cheers
Paul
 
You would just have to check on the motherboard web site. It is only about
1 1/2 year old standard so would have to have newer BIOS to support it.
Otherwise you have to get a seperate IDE controller to support it.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
Paul Crate said:
Thanks for that,

I have added the entry in the registry and still no joy... How do I find
out if my bios supports 48bit LBA?
Click to expand...

If you don't try to boot from the large drives, you don't need the system
BIOS, as the OS drivers query the drives and configure appropriately. You
can also leave your 200 MB drive as the boot, and just use the 128 GiB
partition as the boot partition, then recover the extra space as another
partition within Windows. Make sure you have the latest OS service pack. I
don't remember whether W2K SP3 or 4 was when all the 48 bit stuff was really
sorted out.

Phil
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