Hmmm.
I have five workstations in use running Windows 2000.
I created Ghost images of the hard drives so that I
can recover from a bad hard drive quickly.
Well, one day I went to ghost on a new BIG hard drive
and the computer 'blew out'. (It crashed and refused
to boot up on the newly ghosted drive.)
This would seem to be the reason why . . .
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Windows 2000 sp3 and below cannot use a partion larger then 137GB
Windows 2000 Sp4 Can use a partion larger then 137GB
Some bioses will not properly be able to read a large drive even on some
newer boards like my old asus nforce2 utlra had that problem with a drive..
That had been zero filled...
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/community/threads/win-2000pro-partition-limit.79706/
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Note: this cut-n-paste is from somewhere in the middle
of the article.
I have run these computers on 20 Gig hard drives.
(which one will have a hard time finding and buying.)
But, it is possible to use ghost 'command line' switches
to set up Ghost so that it creates a smaller partition
to install the image into. That worked well.
Also, I have ran Windows 2000 on both IDE and SATA drives. (Hardware must support.)
Windows XP - and I'm not sure if it is Service Pack
two or three - I have an xw4200 with a pair of
One Tera-Byte drives. No problems with that.
This particular machine - and I named it 'Horse' . . .
This morning it started with a SCSI card and one 73 Gig
SCSI drive - which it boots off of. It had two one terabyte
drives for storage. (One drive is almost full of ghost images.)
The second one terabyte drive has drivers for a number of
different computers stored on it. Both the one terabyte
drives are SATA.
'They' unloaded a box of laptop hard drives, ranging from
80 Gigs to 500 Gigs. So I took a broke cd drive, stripped
it down to a chassis and bolted two of the 500 Gig drives
to it. I tucked it into an empty cd drive bay and
cabled everything up.
Works nice. Three Terabytes of storage space plus the
SCSI boot drive.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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