Moving large NTFS drive to another computer - 2 hours of errors?

[BeamGuy]

We have a large 160 Gbyte hard drive that was formatted on one system and
loaded with data files. The drive was then moved to another Pentium 2 era
system and installed. On the first boot it said "new hardware found, must reboot".
Then on subsequent reboot it said "converting drive", then after a minute started
scrolling large numbers of uninteligible messages that scrolled by too fast to read
for over two hours.

Now when we look at the files it appears that over half are corrupt.

Can someone shed some light on this?

 

[Enkidu]

We have a large 160 Gbyte hard drive that was formatted on one system and
loaded with data files. The drive was then moved to another Pentium 2 era
system and installed. On the first boot it said "new hardware found, must reboot".
Then on subsequent reboot it said "converting drive", then after a minute started
scrolling large numbers of uninteligible messages that scrolled by too fast to read
for over two hours.

Now when we look at the files it appears that over half are corrupt.

Can someone shed some light on this?

This is probably nothing to do with 2000, but anyway...

The problem is probably because the older system did not recognise the
large drive as being as large as it actually is. I believe there is a
limit at 137GB so everything above that may be corrupted or not
recognised by the old system. Sometimes disk manufacturers provide
special drivers for older machines/bioses.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Andy]

We have a large 160 Gbyte hard drive that was formatted on one system and
loaded with data files. The drive was then moved to another Pentium 2 era
system and installed. On the first boot it said "new hardware found, must reboot".
Then on subsequent reboot it said "converting drive", then after a minute started
scrolling large numbers of uninteligible messages that scrolled by too fast to read
for over two hours.

Now when we look at the files it appears that over half are corrupt.

Can someone shed some light on this?

In order for Windows 2000 on the Pentium 2 era computer to access past
the 137GB boundary on large hard drives, two conditions must be met:
1. Installation of SP3 or SP4.
2. Entry of EnableBigLba=1 in the registry