what is the limit on hard drive size support for windows 2k server sp4

[mickey]

I'm in the hurricane affected area of La. and my main PC is dead. I want to
move the 350 gig hard drive to an older win2k sp4 machine. Will win 2k sp4
"see" this size drive?
Thanks

 

[John John (MVP)]

Make sure that you apply the registry fix before you move the disk.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters

Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

John

 

[mickey]

John - I've added the DWord to the path you instructed. This is what I see
from my regedit is :
Name Value name: Enable BigLba
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x00000001 (1)

Is this correct?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Remove the space in the value name.


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