Looks like I have a problem here. I have a 1560gig HD onto which I
have installed W2k. Thinkling I understood the LBA issue, I made
partitions before the install. Then went thru with the install; did
the SP4 and SP4 rollup 1 updates. Added the Enable BigLba refgistry
entry.

BUT still can not see the entire drive space. Originally made 4
partitions with the W2k install, C=15gig, D=10g, E=15g, F=15g. Free
space showed up as 73gig.

So guess I did something wrong. Maybe making the extra 3 partitions
messed up the future calculation of an accurate frre space for the
full drive.

Is there any way to recover from this and get back my full drive
space? Other than starting over?? Hate to go thruagain all the
hours of installs I just did.

btw the system does see the full 160gigs on another drive I connected
thru a usb adapter. So that makes me thing I did the LBA thing
correctly. Just that I messed up on the main drive.

thanks
Sam

When you start up try entering cmos setup and verify that the disk size is
correctly identified.


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"Sam" wrote:
> Looks like I have a problem here. I have a 1560gig HD onto which I
> have installed W2k. Thinkling I understood the LBA issue, I made
> partitions before the install. Then went thru with the install; did
> the SP4 and SP4 rollup 1 updates. Added the Enable BigLba refgistry
> entry.
>
> BUT still can not see the entire drive space. Originally made 4
> partitions with the W2k install, C=15gig, D=10g, E=15g, F=15g. Free
> space showed up as 73gig.
>
> So guess I did something wrong. Maybe making the extra 3 partitions
> messed up the future calculation of an accurate frre space for the
> full drive.
>
> Is there any way to recover from this and get back my full drive
> space? Other than starting over?? Hate to go thruagain all the
> hours of installs I just did.
>
> btw the system does see the full 160gigs on another drive I connected
> thru a usb adapter. So that makes me thing I did the LBA thing
> correctly. Just that I messed up on the main drive.
>
> thanks
> Sam

David,
Thanks for your reply.

I have checked the CMOS on boot and it does report the correct drive
size,

And I went ahead and removed the last 3 of the partitions which I
created at install. The install had made them logical drives. So I
also removed the extended partition in which these 3 were made.

But still the OS does not recognize the full 160 gigs. Sorry for the
previous drive size typo. The drive in question is a 160gig WD IDE
drive.

Sam

Dave Patrick

>When you start up try entering cmos setup and verify that the disk size is
>correctly identified.

Andy,
Thanks for your reply.

To test the LBA again, I put another 160 in as drive 1 and it is
recognized as correctly.

So the problem seems to be centered on the W2k settings for the drive
0 with the OS on it.

Sam

Andy > wrote:
>48-bit LBA capability does not apply to USB drives, only to drives
>connected to the motherboard chipset IDE or SATA interface. If Disk
>Management does not recognize the disk size as about 148 GB, then
>Windows 2000 is not correctly configured for 48-bit LBA.
>
>On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:46:53 -0400, Sam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>David,
>>Thanks for your reply.
>>
>>I have checked the CMOS on boot and it does report the correct drive
>>size,
>>
>>And I went ahead and removed the last 3 of the partitions which I
>>created at install. The install had made them logical drives. So I
>>also removed the extended partition in which these 3 were made.
>>
>>But still the OS does not recognize the full 160 gigs. Sorry for the
>>previous drive size typo. The drive in question is a 160gig WD IDE
>>drive.
>>
>>Sam
>>
>>Dave Patrick
>>
>>>When you start up try entering cmos setup and verify that the disk size is
>>>correctly identified.

This has gotten overly frustrating.

I'm looking at making a slipstream cd with SP4 on it. But so far the
instructions I've found seem not to be sufficient. So am not sure how
far that will get.

Plus I end up with a W2k which still needs all teh updates since SP4.
That should get me an OS with LBA included. But I will still be many
updates away from a completely up to date W2k.

Is there a way to find all teh W2k updates and make just one complete
Slipstreamed CD?

And as it may appear I am close to blowing this install away and
starting over.

Help is appreciated.

Sam

It won't help. The regedit still must be applied as per the article.


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"Sam" wrote:
> This has gotten overly frustrating.
>
> I'm looking at making a slipstream cd with SP4 on it. But so far the
> instructions I've found seem not to be sufficient. So am not sure how
> far that will get.
>
> Plus I end up with a W2k which still needs all teh updates since SP4.
> That should get me an OS with LBA included. But I will still be many
> updates away from a completely up to date W2k.
>
> Is there a way to find all teh W2k updates and make just one complete
> Slipstreamed CD?
>
> And as it may appear I am close to blowing this install away and
> starting over.
>
> Help is appreciated.
>
> Sam
>

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:49:08 -0600, "Dave Patrick"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>It won't help. The regedit still must be applied as per the article.

David,

Thanks for getting back to me on this.

Are you saying that slipstreaming in SP4 will still not let W2k see
the full 160gigs when I start the install?

But that it will only see the 160gig after I change the registry entry
after install of the slipstream is completed?

If that is so then, it would seem that I should only make 1 partition
the size I want it to be for the OS. And leave the rest of the drive
unpartitioned?

Reading the LBA document seemed to say that the OS would find the rest
of the drive after the SP4 and the registry change were made. From
that I am thinking that I messed that up when I made 4 partitions
instead of making only just the one (first) partition for the OS,
right?

Sam

Thanks for trying to help.

Well tried making a bootable slipstream SP4 CD/
After two tries that did not boot, gave up on that for now.

Have cleaned out the 160g boot drive. And reinstalled the W2k from the
original MS cd (sp2 one). But with ONLY the 1 partition made for the
OS.

It installed ok. Loaded minimum programs to operate it, Mbd drivers,
video drivers, and file handler.

Then did the SP4 update package. Did the LBA registry change.
Robooted.and Disk Management now sees the entire 160g drive (149.05
gig). Will go ahead and create the rest of machine tomorrow.

But I still would like to know more about slipstreaming and how to et
all the updates available for this good old W2k OS.

Is there a way to get all the updates downloaded and just do one
massive install of all of them?

Sam

See inline comments.


"Sam" wrote:

> David,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me on this.
>
> Are you saying that slipstreaming in SP4 will still not let W2k see
> the full 160gigs when I start the install?
* Yes

> But that it will only see the 160gig after I change the registry entry
> after install of the slipstream is completed?
* Correct again

> If that is so then, it would seem that I should only make 1 partition
> the size I want it to be for the OS. And leave the rest of the drive
> unpartitioned?
* Yes, that's what I would do.

> Reading the LBA document seemed to say that the OS would find the rest
> of the drive after the SP4 and the registry change were made. From
> that I am thinking that I messed that up when I made 4 partitions
> instead of making only just the one (first) partition for the OS,
> right?
* Yes, you've got it.

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These articles may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290074
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2000_...pstreaming.htm


Also my standard boiler plate;
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To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very
important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive
controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later
you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver
for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-049.mspx


Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS08-067.mspx



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"Sam" wrote:
> Thanks for trying to help.
>
> Well tried making a bootable slipstream SP4 CD/
> After two tries that did not boot, gave up on that for now.
>
> Have cleaned out the 160g boot drive. And reinstalled the W2k from the
> original MS cd (sp2 one). But with ONLY the 1 partition made for the
> OS.
>
> It installed ok. Loaded minimum programs to operate it, Mbd drivers,
> video drivers, and file handler.
>
> Then did the SP4 update package. Did the LBA registry change.
> Robooted.and Disk Management now sees the entire 160g drive (149.05
> gig). Will go ahead and create the rest of machine tomorrow.
>
> But I still would like to know more about slipstreaming and how to et
> all the updates available for this good old W2k OS.
>
> Is there a way to get all the updates downloaded and just do one
> massive install of all of them?
>
> Sam