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Re: Windows 2000

By: micro in POPE IV | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 20 Oct 16 6:43 PM | 48 view(s)
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Zim

a suggestion for you for the future.
1. Glad you got a work around for the problem.

2. You can always take a larger drive and partition it using free disck partitioning software ( think Hiren's 98 boot cd) or partition magic or some other one.

Then, when you have created a small partition on the hard drive, you can install windows 2000 into that partition and boot from there as well.

Another better suggestion:

USE a USB FLASH DRIVE of 32 GB as your hard drive and boot from the USB drive. No different than using a solid state drive. Lots faster too.

Just a few more ideas for you consider....

Glad you got it going!

micro...


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Windows 2000
By: Zimbler0 in POPE IV
Thu, 20 Oct 16 5:48 AM 		Msg. 12432 of 47202

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 . . .

>>>
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/
>>>

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.

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