Getting partition too big on W2K re-install (NTFS)

[Bill Stock]

A few weeks ago W2K hosed itself on my backup PC. I was able to get into the
disk from a boot CD, but I could not get the disk to boot or W2K setup to
see the installation.

I pulled the drive this weekend and recovered the setup files I wanted to my
XP machine. I also recreated and formatted the partitions I wanted in XP and
put the files back on those partitions. W2K still cannot see the
installation (disk unformatted or damaged), so I killed the boot partition
and tried to recreate it in W2K, but I'm getting partition too big. The
partition I'm trying to create is 8 GB and is NTFS. Disk is set to Auto in
the BIOS (always was), so it should not be a size recognition issue. I'll
try forcing LBA next.

Is the XP formatting causing W2K to choke, is the BIOS hosed or is there a
partition size limitation in early W2K releases?

 

[Dave Patrick]

The XP format should still work (though isn't necessary) Yes, I think your
cmos setup is incorrect. Can you pull the battery for a while then reset to
defaults?


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