Re: OEM hard drive questions

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Kurt

But I've given up on 2000 finally and have got a slipstreamed SP3 installer for XP - using nlite - now I'm working on getting the hotfixes slipped in, and having Program Files and Documents and Settings on different partitions - can be done through nlite - very cool!

Regards
Vern the "humble hacker"
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Kurt Anderson" <kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Vern, 
>
> Try this site, specific to Windows 2000: 
> http://www.largeharddrivesupport.windowsreinstall.com/win2k.htm 
>
> When I ran into the problem I updated the mobo BIOS and changed the 
> registry (as stated in the link). (My other issue was due to the 
> software that came with the mobo.) 
>
>
> Kurt Anderson 
> Application Developer 
> Highsmith 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> On Behalf Of vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:10 PM 
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users 
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] OEM hard drive questions 
>
> Folks 
>
> I just ran into this problem - had an XP CD with no service packs. My PC 
> had been fried at the USB and Ethernet port by a close lightning strike 
> - came in through the router somehow - nothing else hurt. 
>
> So I have a new mobo, tried to mess with the Win2K that this luddite 
> likes and was running - 2 IDE drives that I tried to connect using 
> adapters to SATA. Not a pretty picture. 
>
> So now I have this "little" 500GB WD SE16 - wow is it ever quiet! - SATA 
> drive. And XP with no SPs knows only how to format to 128GB - basically 
> the 137,000 MB you mention. 
>
> So the short story is, I went digging, found out about slipstreaming 
> service packs into installation images, got started playing with nlite 
> (www.nliteos.com) - which could be a great tool for enterprises that 
> want to standardize Windows installations, BTW. And that thing has more 
> knobs to twiddle with than DB2 on AIX, methinks! 
>
> HTH 
> Vern 
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Dan 
>
> > Thanks Kurt. Hopefully, this PC is new enough (not quite a year) to 
> > already support > 137GB. But this will be good to know if I need it. 
> >
> > - Dan 
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Kurt Anderson wrote: 
> >
> > > Whoops I sent it by accident. 
> > > If you run into the 137gb limit go here: 
> > > http://www.48bitlba.com/ 
> > >
> > > I ran into this issue a while back. Though even worse, I had a 
> > > program on my computer that I never used that came with the 
> > > motherboard that prevented anything larger than 137gb (boy what a 
> > > pain that was to figure out). 
> > >
> > >
> > > Kurt Anderson 
> > > Application Developer 
> > > Highsmith 
> > >
> > > -----Original Message----- 
> > > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > > On Behalf Of Dan 
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:26 PM 
> > > To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users 
> > > Subject: Re: [PCTECH] OEM hard drive questions 
> > >
> > > Guys, again, thanks for all of the advice! 
> > >
> > > - Dan 
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