Large 320Gb drive for Win 2000

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Fred Pickering

I would like to install a 320Gb drive as the D drive in a Windows 2000
system. The size limit apparently is 120Gb.
I read about a patch on the Microsoft but there are so many fine print "out"
I was a bit worried about doing the registry edits (I'm familiar with
playing around with the registry).

The C drive is 80Gigs and has WIn2000 with SP4 installed.

IS there a sure fire way of doing this without running the risk of
corrupting data on the existing C drive? (the caveats on MS site were not
helpful. My clients PC is used in Video Editing.

thanks

Fred Pickering
 
I would like to install a 320Gb drive as the D drive in a Windows 2000
system. The size limit apparently is 120Gb.
I read about a patch on the Microsoft but there are so many fine print "out"
I was a bit worried about doing the registry edits (I'm familiar with
playing around with the registry).

The C drive is 80Gigs and has WIn2000 with SP4 installed.

IS there a sure fire way of doing this without running the risk of
corrupting data on the existing C drive? (the caveats on MS site were not
helpful. My clients PC is used in Video Editing.

thanks

Fred Pickering
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Registry Settings
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi
\Parameters]
Value Name: EnableBigLba
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
 
Assuming the Bios supports the hd size,
I've had no problems undertaking the reg edit.
Of course the sure fire way is to create an Image of the C drive first.
 
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Fred Pickering said:
I would like to install a 320Gb drive as the D drive in a Windows 2000
system. The size limit apparently is 120Gb.
I read about a patch on the Microsoft but there are so many fine
print "out" I was a bit worried about doing the registry edits (I'm
familiar with playing around with the registry).

The C drive is 80Gigs and has WIn2000 with SP4 installed.

IS there a sure fire way of doing this without running the risk of
corrupting data on the existing C drive? (the caveats on MS site were
not helpful. My clients PC is used in Video Editing.

thanks

Fred Pickering
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Hi Fred

Take a look here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098

HTH
 
I assume you are referring to this:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305098

None of that will affect hard discs of less than 137 GB. Your customer
should have proper backups to rely on, not just for this but for any
other problems that may lead to data loss... hard discs eventually fail.

John
 
Fred Pickering said:
I would like to install a 320Gb drive as the D drive in a Windows 2000
system. The size limit apparently is 120Gb.
I read about a patch on the Microsoft but there are so many fine print
"out" I was a bit worried about doing the registry edits (I'm familiar
with playing around with the registry).

The C drive is 80Gigs and has WIn2000 with SP4 installed.

IS there a sure fire way of doing this without running the risk of
corrupting data on the existing C drive? (the caveats on MS site were not
helpful. My clients PC is used in Video Editing.

thanks

Fred Pickering
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Many thanks for the replies - the BIOS does indeed recognise the 320GB it's
only when Windows loads the problem arises. From this I assume from a more
detail reading of the article that the Registry edit should be okay.
 
I would like to install a 320Gb drive as the D drive in a Windows 2000
system. The size limit apparently is 120Gb.
I read about a patch on the Microsoft but there are so many fine print "out"
I was a bit worried about doing the registry edits (I'm familiar with
playing around with the registry).

The C drive is 80Gigs and has WIn2000 with SP4 installed.

IS there a sure fire way of doing this without running the risk of
corrupting data on the existing C drive? (the caveats on MS site were not
helpful. My clients PC is used in Video Editing.

thanks

Fred Pickering
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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


REally safe if you follow the directions.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
nesredep egrob said:
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


REally safe if you follow the directions.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
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Thanks for the clarification - the disk has been recognised and is currently
formatting. What I did was cloned the original 80Gb drive to a new 120Gb,
edited the registry on the new disk installed the 320Gb, booted up and the
disc was recognised in Admin Tools. The original 80 Gb is now a backup of
the operating system for my client. He is happy with the arrangement and
I've learnt something - many thanks.
 
Thanks for the clarification - the disk has been recognised and is currently
formatting. What I did was cloned the original 80Gb drive to a new 120Gb,
edited the registry on the new disk installed the 320Gb, booted up and the
disc was recognised in Admin Tools. The original 80 Gb is now a backup of
the operating system for my client. He is happy with the arrangement and
I've learnt something - many thanks.
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you'r welcome
Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
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