What hoses w2K on a large HD (or visa versa)? Partions or Drives larger than 137G?

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I have to reinstall Windows 2000 on my machine... Out of the box, my
CD will NOT recognize my large 320G harddrive (even though I
slipstreamed all the way up to SP4).

A install on a fresh hardfile was simple enough... I just made the
primary ~50G and left the rest of the space blank. After the install
I enabled 48 bit LBA support and used partition magic to create a n
extended partition with 2 ~130G logical drives.

Well I am now having to do a reinstall of W2K (got hosed with a driver
and just couldn't recover) but before I do that.....

The logical drives are 130G each but extended partition is ~260G.
Which of these wnhen larger than 137G hoses up W2K?

I have a shedload of data on the harddrive and I don't want W2K doing
silly thing with it.

Thanks is advance for any helpful response...
 
I have to reinstall Windows 2000 on my machine... Out of the box, my
CD will NOT recognize my large 320G harddrive (even though I
slipstreamed all the way up to SP4).

A install on a fresh hardfile was simple enough... I just made the
primary ~50G and left the rest of the space blank. After the install
I enabled 48 bit LBA support and used partition magic to create a n
extended partition with 2 ~130G logical drives.

Well I am now having to do a reinstall of W2K (got hosed with a driver
and just couldn't recover) but before I do that.....

The logical drives are 130G each but extended partition is ~260G.
Which of these wnhen larger than 137G hoses up W2K?
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Windows 2000 setup is unable to access anything past the 137 GB point
on the disk. I have found that Windows 2000 can be reinstalled on a
disk up to 250 GB in size. With a 300 GB disk, Windows 2000 setup
won't recognize any partition (even if it's a small primary partition)
as valid if a partition (whether extended or another primary) goes
past the 250 GB point on the disk.
 
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