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New Gotcha to remember when installing a 300 GB drive with Win2k
A 60 GB IBM IDE drive on a computer at work died over the weekend. I got a [link|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148139|320 GB Seagate replacement] and have been installing and restoring things.

Since the CD of Win2K I have only has SP-2, it doesn't have the 48BitBigLBA fix, and can only see 131062 MB on the disk. That's fine, since I know that [link|http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html|BootIt-NG] can stretch the partition when I'm done.

So I did the OS install, installed SP-4, installed 39 Updates from Windows Update, rebooted about eleventy-six times, and restored various programs, then used BootIt-NG to stretch the partition to 305243 MB. No errors. So I rebooted and ...

Blue Screen. Inaccessible Boot Device.

:-(

I tried a few things, but nothing worked. I thought, maybe it's the 48BitBigLBA flag - maybe that's not enabled by default. So I shrunk the partition back to 131062 MB and rebooted, and it came up fine.

Whew!

I ran the utility [link|http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm|EnableBigLBA] and it said the 48-bit LBA was not enabled. Enabling it worked. Stretching the partition was uneventful, and Win2k is happy again.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Its for that reason that I installed to a 120
and used the 250's and the 300 for data storage
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     Gotcha to remember when installing a 300 GB drive with Win2k - (Another Scott) - (4)
         Its for that reason that I installed to a 120 - (bepatient)
         Its down right amazing. Truly amazing. - (folkert) - (2)
             Considering os age, VERY sad indeed. -NT - (bepatient)
             ICLRPD (new thread) - (jb4)

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