Help! How use 3 or more IDE HDs ?

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Mark Schmid

Hi all!

Pleas help:

I have 4 hard disks which I would like to use with Windows
2000. I combined two to a RAID 1 combination which works
just as a single hard disk.
So I am trying to use three IDE hard disks with windows.
However, when I try to partition and format the third hard
disk in the control pannel, there is a red blocking symbol
in front of the third hard disk and it can't be
partitioned or formated when trying to right-click it.
The Windwos troubleshooter says most PCs are only
configured to use 2 IDE hard disks. If you want more, you
need to change the registry and / or use DOS drivers.

Does anyone know how to do this?
I searched the MS Knowledge Base for about 4 hours and
didn't find a single line on this subject.

Please help! I bought a Lian-Li server case with 12 hard
disk racks and I really want to use them all with Windows
2000 (if possible).

Any help appreciated!
Mark
 
Mark Schmid said:
Hi all!

Pleas help:

I have 4 hard disks which I would like to use with Windows
2000. I combined two to a RAID 1 combination which works
just as a single hard disk.
So I am trying to use three IDE hard disks with windows.
However, when I try to partition and format the third hard
disk in the control pannel, there is a red blocking symbol
in front of the third hard disk and it can't be
partitioned or formated when trying to right-click it.
The Windwos troubleshooter says most PCs are only
configured to use 2 IDE hard disks. If you want more, you
need to change the registry and / or use DOS drivers.

Does anyone know how to do this?
I searched the MS Knowledge Base for about 4 hours and
didn't find a single line on this subject.

Please help! I bought a Lian-Li server case with 12 hard
disk racks and I really want to use them all with Windows
2000 (if possible).

Any help appreciated!
Mark
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My PC has 4 Internal Hard drives and 3 in an external case. I have had no
problems with Windows 2000 pro working with them.

The first two are connected to an IDE RAID controller set up as RAID 0,
Win2k sees them as one drive. The other two are on the standard IDE
controller with a CD/RW and DVD drive, and the external are all SCSI.

Have you checked that the jumpers on the drives are correctly set? Also the
computer manufacture may have updated motherboard drivers.

James
 
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I think you need W2K Server, and also go to a NG that deals with that version
of W2K.
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There seem to be a few people who have more than 2 IDE
hard disks running fine with their Win2000.
So it doesn't look like I need Win2000 Server.

I checked the jumpers on the hard disks, they're fine.
When I unplug the two hard disks from the RAID card and
plug them into a Promise TX2 IDE expansion (2 additional
IDE slots without RAID), I get similar results: The
Windows disk management utility shows two instead of one
hard disk with a red blocking symbol.

This is weird: The Windows 2000 troubleshooter says to
find info in the knowledgbase on more than 2 IDE hard
disks, because this is not standard and requires edditing
the registry, yet some people have just that without doing
any modivications.
Gosh, more than 2 hard disks, is this really so
complicated for Microsoft???

Mark
 
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