Enlarging NTFS partition on Win2000 Pro fail

[Guest]

Hello everyone:


I have a video monitoring system that ran out of space on HDD and I bought a
new 500GB drive. The old HDD was broken down on two partitions: C:= 4.9GB
(Bootable) and D:=110GB. Now I copied the whole HDD to a new one with Paragon
Drive Copy and repaired Windows 2000 Pro on it. Everything worked fine until
I attempted to resize partition on drive D from 110GB to 490GB with Partition
Magic 8.0. (I did this resizing on another PC with Windows XP SP2 installed
when I hooked it up as Secondary Master disk -- the Motherboard/BIOS is LBA
compatible).

Now when I boot up I see blue screen of death and when I run Windows Repair
from CD it doesn't see either C: or D:

I can make a copy of the old HDD again but my question is how can I also
enlarge disk D: without loosing data?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Go check on the new HD's manufacturers's web site. They usually have a
program to copy old drive to new, usually with three choices,
straight physical copy, ie. C. as 4.9 GB, D: as 110GB and the rest
unpartitioned,
proportional copy, ie. C: as ~20GB and d: as ~480GB
user managed sizes....


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[JohnG]

Windows 2000 does not support 48-bit LBA (needed for proper support of
drives >133G) unless SP3 or later is installed AND you add a keyword to
the registry. Maybe one of these could be your problem.

From http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

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: 1 (when it redisplays in the main window, it will display
as 0x1.)
4. Quit Registry Editor.
In addition, the BIOS and hard drive must support 48-bit LBA. I am
assuming all big hard drives do and that your BIOS does, or you upgrade
it.
Hope this helps, John Greenwood.

 

[Guest]

Yes, thanks a lot, JohnG. That was the problem. The thing that bothers me is
why someone should edit the registry for that. I installed SP4 on it and that
registry key wasn't changed. How would an average user know how to do that?

 

[JohnG]

Glad that worked!
I have no idea how the average mortal is supposed to figure that out or
why thw SP upgrade didn't fix the registry. I just went through a
bunch of grief until I stumbled on the solution, and I cannot remember
anymore where I found it - it was a couple of years ago!