Support for medium sized hard drives.

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Does Windows 2000 server standard edition support hard drives larger than 128
MBytes? If not can it be made to do so.

I can't creat anything bigger than this on a 'new disk' and If I initialise
the disk on a different system it seems to become corrupt once its up to
about that size.

I'm not sure whether windows 2000 server is the culprit hence the question.
 
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Does Windows 2000 server standard edition support hard drives larger
than 128 MBytes? If not can it be made to do so.

I can't creat anything bigger than this on a 'new disk' and If I
initialise the disk on a different system it seems to become corrupt
once its up to about that size.

I'm not sure whether windows 2000 server is the culprit hence the
question.
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It didn't before SP3. See here for some more information:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

That is if you're talking about 48 bit LBA support and drives larger than
137 GB?

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Does Windows 2000 server standard edition support hard drives larger than 128
MBytes? If not can it be made to do so.

I can't creat anything bigger than this on a 'new disk' and If I initialise
the disk on a different system it seems to become corrupt once its up to
about that size.

I'm not sure whether windows 2000 server is the culprit hence the question.
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Start/run/regedit
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


That will do it for you - for sure.

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In Chris Clarke-Williams <[email protected]> had
this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Yes indeed thanks Galen I also discovered at
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about260.html that WindowsXP has a
similar problem although it would appear that Service pack 2 sorts it
out.

Its quite a relief to find that a registry edit rather than new server
hardware should fix my problem!
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Good to hear it.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
 
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