Windows 2K Hard Drive Support

[rkoenn]

I am installing Win 2K on a friends computer that is almost strictly used to play music in his shop. He has a 320 GB Seagate drive installed. Initially it appears that 2K will only format about 137 GB of this drive. I have the 2K installed on a 40 GB spare drive and have SP4 installed as well. When I look at the 320 GB drive after booting on the 40 GB drive, I still only see 137 GB from within disk manager. Do I need to do the registry patch to get full normal support of the 320 GB drive? If that is the solution is there any dangers inherent in implementing this in the future, like corrupting the drive or such? Your help will be greatly appreciated, I need to get this machine running for him tonight.

Thanks.

 

[bsobel]

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

 

[rkoenn]

Thanks, I had already located this article and was planning on trying it tonight. It does sound like I need to do the registry hack first? Hopefully that will do the trick. It is funny that they implemented the underlying code but didn't fix the registry during the SP upgrade. Have you ever tried it? That would be the real determinate.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: rkoenn
Thanks, I had already located this article and was planning on trying it tonight. It does sound like I need to do the registry hack first? Hopefully that will do the trick. It is funny that they implemented the underlying code but didn't fix the registry during the SP upgrade. Have you ever tried it? That would be the real determinate.

I have not personally, sorry!

 

[bruceb]

The other thing you need to check besides your BIOS is if your on board or plug in IDE controller is capable of 48 Bit addressing.
Some of the very early ones can not do 48 bit ... I think you need one that is IDE 4 or later to work with large drives.

 

[gorobei]

just install 2k and sp4. the rest of the drive will be visible after that.

 

[Blazer]

slipstream sp4 and 2k should see all 320gb IF the mobo and chipset support it.