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Western Digital 20gig problems..

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Tannah

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I have an old Via MVP3 mother board with a Western Digital 20gig drive on it..
I decided to install Widnows 2000 on it.. but when I got to delete the old Win98 partition I run into problems it takes a really long time then tells me its done, then when I tell it that I want to user the new space for a partition it tells me there was an error in the ide transaction and windows cannot install..

any ideas?
I tryed changing the IDE cable..
I thought it might be the board so I put a little quantium 3 gig in and installed 2000 with no problems..
 
Ok I Went and got Western Digitals Dignostic tools.. and ran them all, they told me there was no problems with the drive.. I zeroed out the drive. still no problems found..
tryed to set up windows 2000 again.. exact same error when trying to partition the drive.. (I'm using the Onboard ide controller)
I then tryed putting the drive to primary insted of single, and slaving the CDrom to it.. still same problem..
so I decide to pull out the 20 western digital drive and put it one of my systems thats already running 2000
I pull out all the drives in the system save the cdrom.. and connect the 20 gig.. and tryinstalling windows 2000, and what do you know.. it works flawlessly no problems for the partitoning and initall install of windows 2000.. and I used the same ata 100 cable..
the system it ran fine on is a asus p2b-f..

so what the heck? I'm betting somthings wrong with the ide controller.. but ithen why would it install W2K in the Mvp3 to a 3 gig drive, and not on the 20 gig?

any ideas?
 
A good bet would be the BIOS is not correctly identifying the drive on the
Via motherboard. Maybe its time for a Update.
 
OK! In a nutshell, here is your problem: you have a 20GB HD and a MB that doesn't support a drive that large.

What you can do: download from WD and install the EZ-BIOS option from the LifeGuard Utilities.
Basically, this will trick your system BIOS into recognizing the full volume of your HD.
 
hmm well the BIOS is updated to the last revison that was ever releced for the board.. and is dated 1999

if the board does not support the hard drive.. then why have I been able to install windows 98se on the harddrive and run it for the past year or so with the MVP3 mother board??

but 2000 will not even partition it to install.. Is the way W2K handles hard drives that diffrent??

 
Does anyone else have any ideas? I've come down to the point were I figure either I have to buy a promise ATA IDE controller.. or get a new motherboard..
 
Have you tried disabling UDMA in the Bios?

Via chipsets have been known to cause conflicts with Win2k/XP.

You can always re-enable it after you have the OS installed.
 
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