300gig HD, only showing as 137HD during win2k install

hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that is
detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only offered
the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix either,

i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail

what else am i missing,

what else should i try ?

thanks in advance


M

hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that is
detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only offered
the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix either,
i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail
what else am i missing,
what else should i try ?

Your Win 2K OS has a partition size limitation of 137GB. Just make a
total of 3 or more partitions with different drive letters.


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foo1 says...
hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that is
detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only offered
the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix either,

i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail

what else am i missing,

what else should i try ?

www.48bitlba.com


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foo1 wrote:
hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that
is detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only
offered the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix
either,

i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail

what else am i missing,

what else should i try ?

thanks in advance


M

I suppouse you need SP4 slipstreamed to install straight on 300GB
Or, as KC says, make smaller partitions. BUT you still need that SP4 (and
the registry tweak for EnableBigLBA?)

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you know as i tried to indicate i don't think this is a windows OS
problem, this is while booting from CD, trying to install SP2 of win2k,
it DID allow a 300gig partition and formatting once

because one can't tweak an OS if they can't get it installed

i think the drive is 'locked'



On Dec 18, 6:43 am, "Thomas Wendell"
wrote:
foo1 wrote:
hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that
is detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only
offered the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix
either,

i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail

what else am i missing,

what else should i try ?

thanks in advance

MI suppouse you need SP4 slipstreamed to install straight on 300GB
Or, as KC says, make smaller partitions. BUT you still need that SP4 (and
the registry tweak for EnableBigLBA?)

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Tumppi
=================================
A lot learned from these newsgroups
Helsinki, FINLAND
(translations from/to FI not always accurate
=================================

not only is win 2k restricting the drive you need winxp sp2 and a board that
will allow a 300 gig drive.
"foo1" wrote in message
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hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that is
detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only offered
the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix either,

i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail

what else am i missing,

what else should i try ?

thanks in advance


M

I just got a seagate 300gb hard drive. It comes with a CD-rom that you
boot up first to configure the drive before you install windows 2000. I
have an older motherboard that has the 137gb limit. What I found out
through trial and error is to first use the disk wizard utility on the
cd-rom to configure just one partition that is less than 137gb. I made
my first partition 67gb. Then I installed windows 2000. Then I updated
it to SP4, which allows greater than 137gb partitions. Then I made a
second partition using disk wizard for windows. The 2nd partition was
about 211gb. So then I had the full 300 gigabytes on 2 partitions,
minus about 20gb for what I assume is some kind of disk management
overhead.

KC Computers wrote:

hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that
is detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only
offered the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix
either, i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail
what else am i missing,
what else should i try ?

Your Win 2K OS has a partition size limitation of 137GB. Just make a total of 3 or more
partitions with different drive letters.

The 48 bit LBA limitation applys to the physical drive, not the partitions.

are you guys saying, that if the 300gig HD is running as a slave
and a 6gig HD is NOW running sp4 that from the sp4 OS I should
be able to

see 300gigs of space on the slave , says with the Win2k OS's
disk management tools

as what I DO see is 128gig of unpartitioned space right now


thx again

On Dec 18, 10:38 am, "Rod Speed" wrote:
KC Computers wrote:
hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a
misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do
with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that
is detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only
offered the small partition and deleting and recreating doesn't fix
either, i even did a low level format on the drive to no avail
what else am i missing,
what else should i try ?
Your Win 2K OS has a partition size limitation of 137GB. Just make a total of 3 or more
partitions with different drive letters.The 48 bit LBA limitation applys to the physical drive, not the partitions.

foo1 wrote:

are you guys saying, that if the 300gig HD is running as a slave
and a 6gig HD is NOW running sp4 that from the sp4 OS I should
be able to see 300gigs of space on the slave, says with the
Win2k OS's disk management tools

Yes.

as what I DO see is 128gig of unpartitioned space right now

As I said elsewhere, likely because you partitioned the drive with
only SP2 and so no 48bit LBA support, and that has resulted in
that 128G geometry detail in the MBR of the big drive. Just wipe
the drive with something like clearhdd to get rid of the MBR and
you should see 300G of unpartitioned space again.


On Dec 18, 10:38 am, "Rod Speed" wrote:
KC Computers wrote:
hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of
a misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing
to do with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new
bios that is detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation
i'm only offered the small partition and deleting and recreating
doesn't fix either, i even did a low level format on the drive to
no avail
what else am i missing,
what else should i try ?
Your Win 2K OS has a partition size limitation of 137GB. Just make
a total of 3 or more
partitions with different drive letters.The 48 bit LBA limitation
applys to the physical drive, not the partitions.