win2k reporting WRONG HDD size
OK i have a rather large machine. . . (I saved my pennies) you can check out the set-up here www. ancker. net/custombox. html What my problem is, is that Windows 2000 reports my 30GB Western Digital drive to be 7.
OK i have a rather large machine...(I saved my pennies) you can check out the set-up here "www.ancker.net/custombox.html"
What my problem is, is that Windows 2000 reports my 30GB Western Digital drive to be 7.87GB... I tried using a win98 boot disk to use fdisk and format to make it 30GB...but when i boot back into 2000 it shows up as 7.87. I have all the latest drivers...I do NOT have SP1 yet.... Any suggestions?
What my problem is, is that Windows 2000 reports my 30GB Western Digital drive to be 7.87GB... I tried using a win98 boot disk to use fdisk and format to make it 30GB...but when i boot back into 2000 it shows up as 7.87. I have all the latest drivers...I do NOT have SP1 yet.... Any suggestions?
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The problem is probably in your old 3 Gig (3gigs !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!) hard drive. It is probably not fully ATA multidrive compliant. Basically in a master/slave setup, the master hd controls the slave. So if your old drive acts like a normal ATA, but isn't, it might tell Win2k that it's slave drive is only 8gigs not 30. 8 Gigs was the max size that older harddrive controllers were built to handle.
To tell you the truth, the setup that you have listed at your page is very poorly configured. If I wanted to set up a comparable system to do everything you're doing, I would only have 2 drives. 4 drives would hurt performance too much for my liking and it would cost too much. It would be cheaper and faster to have 2 drives instead of this miss-matched piece of hardware you have set up.
To tell you the truth, the setup that you have listed at your page is very poorly configured. If I wanted to set up a comparable system to do everything you're doing, I would only have 2 drives. 4 drives would hurt performance too much for my liking and it would cost too much. It would be cheaper and faster to have 2 drives instead of this miss-matched piece of hardware you have set up.
Normally I would agree with you. BUT This only happened AFTER i had to RE-install Win2k. it DID work before....So i know that is not the case with this problem. Also the 3 gig drive is fairly new..less than 2 years. Meaning that it should be fully capable of handling 30GB drives.
Any Other suggestions??
Any Other suggestions??
Did you try disconnecting the old 3GB drive anyway? I have had things work on one install, and then not work on another (this happened with connecting to my HP 722c on my NT Server from Win2K). JB has a pretty good point. It sounds like you are running in some sort of compatiblity mode that is give the >8GB size.
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