Installing Windows 2000 on a 250GB hard drive.

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How do you make Windows 2000 clean install on a 250GB hard
drive. The system is compatible with the 250GB HDD from
maxtor. When booting on Win2000 CD it does not see the
full size.
 
You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or SATA, or raid), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000 setup
disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection,
and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's
controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.
 
How do you make Windows 2000 clean install on a 250GB hard
drive. The system is compatible with the 250GB HDD from
maxtor. When booting on Win2000 CD it does not see the
full size.
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Windows 2000 only offers support for 48 bit addressing (drives above 137
gig) with SP3 or higher. You will need to create a partition less then
137 gig during setup. After Windows 2000 is installed then install SP3
or later. Take a look at this article.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];305098

Leonard Severt
Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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