I have been unable to get Windows 2000 w/SP3 to detect the full capacity of a
400GB SATA II HD although the BIOS does and Windows XP w/SP2 does. Is there
some way I could provide updated hard drive drivers say for a new fresh
install through using F6 with these drivers on floppy? How would I get the
necessary drivers? The BIOS permits the SATA drives to appear The mainboard
is a MSI 945GM2-F (MS 7210) w/ ICH7 chipset and the prcessor is a Pentium D
805. As the chipset is not the ICH7R there is no SATA RAID but there is an
integrated AHCI SATA Controller which is SATA II capable.

After the install you can apply the reghack in this article.

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098

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"MWACSNY" wrote:
|I have been unable to get Windows 2000 w/SP3 to detect the full capacity of
a
| 400GB SATA II HD although the BIOS does and Windows XP w/SP2 does. Is
there
| some way I could provide updated hard drive drivers say for a new fresh
| install through using F6 with these drivers on floppy? How would I get the
| necessary drivers? The BIOS permits the SATA drives to appear The
mainboard
| is a MSI 945GM2-F (MS 7210) w/ ICH7 chipset and the prcessor is a Pentium
D
| 805. As the chipset is not the ICH7R there is no SATA RAID but there is an
| integrated AHCI SATA Controller which is SATA II capable.

Whilst winxp usually detects and installs appropriate raid drivers, I dont
believe win2k does.
If you read the MSI manual, page 5.8, it specifically states that with win2k
you need to install the raid driver using F6 option from floppy, during the
setup of win2k. (Intel IAA raid Xp driver for ICH7R)
Since you are installing from a win2k sp3 disk the 'big lba' should be
enabled by default.

"MWACSNY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9E478FE8-B6F1-490E-9DB1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have been unable to get Windows 2000 w/SP3 to detect the full capacity
of a
> 400GB SATA II HD although the BIOS does and Windows XP w/SP2 does. Is
there
> some way I could provide updated hard drive drivers say for a new fresh
> install through using F6 with these drivers on floppy? How would I get the
> necessary drivers? The BIOS permits the SATA drives to appear The
mainboard
> is a MSI 945GM2-F (MS 7210) w/ ICH7 chipset and the prcessor is a Pentium
D
> 805. As the chipset is not the ICH7R there is no SATA RAID but there is an
> integrated AHCI SATA Controller which is SATA II capable.