Can't install Win 2000 on my computer

[belveder]

have tried to install this os on my computer but I can only get as far
as the screen that says it is checking for devices then it just freezes.
For the life of me I just can't figure so I am stuck with XP lol.

My system is

K8n NEO Platinum Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64+ 3200 CPU with Thermaltake Venus12 fan
2 gig DDR400 memory
MSI NX6600GT Video Card
Leadtek Winfast DTV1000T TV Card
250 GIG Western Digital IDE HD (with 5 partitions)
200 GIG Western Digital SATA HD (with 4 partitions)
80 gig WD IDE External HD for backups
NEC ND 3520A DVD Burner
Pioneer 110 DVD Burner
SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS soundcard
Topower TOP-500PS 560W PSU
Thermaltake Kandalf Tower
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Logitech Optical Mouse
Altec Lansing 5100 5.1 speaker system

 

[Gary Chanson]

What service pack level is the Win2K setup disk? If it's and older setup
disk, it might not support the large disks.

If not, try disconnecting everything you can possibly disconnect and see
if you can get hardware detection to finish and then add the devices back in
after Win2K is running.

 

[belveder]

What service pack level is the Win2K setup disk? If it's and older setup
disk, it might not support the large disks.

If not, try disconnecting everything you can possibly disconnect and see
if you can get hardware detection to finish and then add the devices back in
after Win2K is running.

It's an original Win 2k Pro disk, with no service packs.

 

[Glen]

Disconnect the SATA HD, disable SATA in your system bios and
make sure the IDE drive is set to primary boot device. Once
Win2K is installed and the latest service pack applied, you can
enable the SATA drive and add it.

Also, unless you slipstream a service pack into your Win2K install
CD, that 250GB IDE drive will be a problem. Make sure you
install Win2K on the first partition of the drive, and make sure this
partition resides completely within the first 8GB of the drive (the
actual limit is something around 7.8GB). Again, this limitation
doesn't apply if you slipstream SP2, 3 or 4 into your install CD.

 

[belveder]

Thanks heaps for that. Muchly appreciated

Disconnect the SATA HD, disable SATA in your system bios and
make sure the IDE drive is set to primary boot device. Once
Win2K is installed and the latest service pack applied, you can
enable the SATA drive and add it.

Also, unless you slipstream a service pack into your Win2K install
CD, that 250GB IDE drive will be a problem. Make sure you
install Win2K on the first partition of the drive, and make sure this
partition resides completely within the first 8GB of the drive (the
actual limit is something around 7.8GB). Again, this limitation
doesn't apply if you slipstream SP2, 3 or 4 into your install CD.

 

[Gary Chanson]

It's an original Win 2k Pro disk, with no service packs.

That definitely will not work with drives larger then 128GB. Either get a
later setup disk which has SP4 slipstreamed or put a smaller drive in the box,
install Win2K and SP4 and enable 48-bit LBA support, and then transfer the
installation to the larger drives.

 

[Gary Chanson]

The SATA drive shouldn't be a problem if the right driver is installed in
setup. The large drives sizes are the problem.

 

[belveder]

Ok, Thanks for that. So the fact that the OS partition is only 25 gig
won't make a difference, it's the size of the hard drive. I'll
slipstream SP4 into it then try again

 

[Gary Chanson]

Yes.

 

[Colon Terminus]

Hmm, I've installed Win2K Pro (no Service Paks) on several hundred machines
with large hard drives (>128GB) with no problems whatsoever. As long as I
enable 48 bit addressing in the registry and immediately install SP4 as the
first step after the basic install everything goes smoothly.

I guess I've just been lucky several hundred times.

 

[belveder]

LOL, ok now you have lost me, what is enabling 48bit addressing?

 

[Gary Chanson]

I don't think the original release supports 48-bit LBA...

 

[Gary Chanson]

LOL, ok now you have lost me, what is enabling 48bit addressing?

Here's the information I have about it:



To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000.



The following conditions are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit
LBA ATAPI support:

..

A computer with a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
installed.

..

A computer with a hard disk that has a capacity of greater than 137 gigabytes
(GB).

..

You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the
EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters

To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:

1.

Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).

2.

Locate and then click the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters

3.

On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:

Value name: EnableBigLba

Data type: REG_DWORD

Value data: 0x1

4.

Quit Registry Editor.

 

[Guest]

May I just ask if the 128GB size limitation in Windows 2000 and the "48-bit
LBA large-disk support in the registry" solution apply also to SCSI hard
drives (using Ultra160 or Ultra320 SCSI PCI adapters), or only to IDE hard
drives?

 

[Gary Chanson]

May I just ask if the 128GB size limitation in Windows 2000 and the "48-bit
LBA large-disk support in the registry" solution apply also to SCSI hard
drives (using Ultra160 or Ultra320 SCSI PCI adapters), or only to IDE hard
drives?

I think it only applies to IDE hard drives.

 

[belveder]

I did what was suggested here, took out the LedTek card, unplugged the
Sata drive, changed my keyboard to ps2 (had to leave the mouse
disconnected, didn't have a converter plug).

The installing went as far as getting to choosing the language and
setting up the time & date viewing ways. I clicked Apply then it went
to the following screen and went no further. Tried 3 times but to no
avail, so I'm back on XP again.

 

[Gary Chanson]

Sorry, I'm out of ideas. Maybe someone else will have a suggestion.

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- Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP)
- Abolish Public Schools

I did what was suggested here, took out the LedTek card, unplugged the
Sata drive, changed my keyboard to ps2 (had to leave the mouse
disconnected, didn't have a converter plug).

The installing went as far as getting to choosing the language and
setting up the time & date viewing ways. I clicked Apply then it went
to the following screen and went no further. Tried 3 times but to no
avail, so I'm back on XP again.

LOL, ok now you have lost me, what is enabling 48bit addressing?

Here's the information I have about it:



To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000.



The following conditions are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit
LBA ATAPI support:

.

A computer with a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
installed.

.

A computer with a hard disk that has a capacity of greater than 137 gigabytes
(GB).

.

You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the
EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters

To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:

1.

Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).

2.

Locate and then click the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters

3.

 

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| have tried to install this os on my computer but I can only get as far
| as the screen that says it is checking for devices then it just freezes.
| For the life of me I just can't figure so I am stuck with XP lol.
|
| My system is
|
| K8n NEO Platinum Motherboard
| AMD Athlon 64+ 3200 CPU with Thermaltake Venus12 fan
| 2 gig DDR400 memory
| MSI NX6600GT Video Card
| Leadtek Winfast DTV1000T TV Card
| 250 GIG Western Digital IDE HD (with 5 partitions)
| 200 GIG Western Digital SATA HD (with 4 partitions)
| 80 gig WD IDE External HD for backups
| NEC ND 3520A DVD Burner
| Pioneer 110 DVD Burner
| SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS soundcard
| Topower TOP-500PS 560W PSU
| Thermaltake Kandalf Tower
| Logitech Elite Keyboard
| Logitech Optical Mouse
| Altec Lansing 5100 5.1 speaker system

 

[belveder]

thanks for that

I put the 80 gig in on it's own, no partitions etc and Windows 2000
installed like a dream. So I reconnected the normal ide drive (the XP
Partition had already been formatted).

Then I copied Win2k from the 80 gig to the normal ide drive and
disconnected the 80 gig. Straight away the troubles started, on bootup
the OS scan disk said there where errors and started to run, wiping out
partitions and everything in them.

When it finally finished, not only had it wiped out 2 partitions but it
still wasn't seeing the full hard drive