Installing Win2k on brand new drive

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Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new
computer.
Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive.
During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust
up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives).

Is there a way to do this during the reinstall??

If not how would I get this accomplished?

Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G)

Help.

Thanks

Bob
 
Davet102 said:
Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new
computer.
Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive.
During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust
up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives).

Is there a way to do this during the reinstall??

If not how would I get this accomplished?

Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G)

Help.

Thanks

Bob
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First off, since the machine is new...I assume the bios can
properly detect the drive as 250gigs. be sure to check that first.

If the bios detected the drive OK...
then chances are you have installed an original version of Win2k...
and you may want to create a new win2k cd with SP4 slipstreamed into it.


However, from your post, it looks like you wanted to divide up your drive
anyway...
so there is no harm done.
What you should do now is install SP4...
then go into disk management. You should (hopefully) see the rest of the
drive listed as "unallocated" space.
If so, you can simply use disk management to create a 2nd partition and
format it.

If you now have the system up and running OK...
install IE6 and then go to the windows update page and apply all the critcal
updates...
there will be a lot of them
 
philo said:
First off, since the machine is new...I assume the bios can
properly detect the drive as 250gigs. be sure to check that first.

If the bios detected the drive OK...
then chances are you have installed an original version of Win2k...
and you may want to create a new win2k cd with SP4 slipstreamed into it.
Click to expand...


I don't think that simply having SP4 slipstreamed to the Windows 2000 CD
would do the trick, I think he will also have to change an answer file
or add a .inf file to have the BigLBA registry entry written during the
installation. With Windows 2000 on top of the SP4 requirements you also
have to manually enter the registry entry to be able to use drives
larger than 137GB.

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098

I wouldn't trust doing this biglba deal during the installation without
fully testing the procedure first. I would always have a nagging doubt
about the reliability of the drive, the kind of nagging doubts that I
can do without!

John
 
Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new
computer.
Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive.
During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust
up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives).

Is there a way to do this during the reinstall??

If not how would I get this accomplished?

Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G)

Help.

Thanks

Bob
Click to expand...

The cure for the 131 GB is as follows

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

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
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