Windows 2000 on a 1TB hard drive - problems

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Morning, ladies.

Have any of you, by any chance, ever loaded Windows 2000 onto a 1TB hard drive? I’m having problems. Currently I’m getting a blank screen with a flashing cursor, rather than booting into Windows.

Everything seemed to go well during installation, except that Windows only saw the drive as 130GB. I used Maxblaster to partition the hard drive, leaving 100GB for Windows in order to sort out that problem.

Any ideas? I actually went through this whole process twice. After the first time, I went into the repair console and did a FIXMBR, which left me having to install the whole thing again. So instead, the second time around, I installed on a different 1TB drive. Both are brand new.

Is it possible this computer is just too new for Windows 2000 to properly install itself? Or is 1TB too big? I thought Windows 2000 could handle up to 9TB or something.

Any advice gratefully received.

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Yeah, Windows 2000 only does up to about 130GB.

I’m not quite sure how you make these tweeks when you can’t boot into windows. Maybe install into a 100GB partition then update to access the rest of the disk.

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Thanks, Matthew.

I did do the 100GB partition for Windows. That still left me with a dodgy MBR or something, or somethign else that leaves me with a blinking cursor.

Any idea if sticking XP on it would get me any further?

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Yes XP will work fine.

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[quote=“irishstu”]Any idea if sticking XP on it would get me any further?[/quote]Probably. I have a something like a 320GB and a 250GB in mine, never gave me any problems at all.

You will need an install disk that includes a service pack. Pre-SP1 XP didn’t even have SATA support, so it wont even install on SATA disks. I made an install CD from my original CD and slipstreaming it with SP3.

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[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”][quote=“irishstu”]Any idea if sticking XP on it would get me any further?[/quote]Probably. I have a something like a 320GB and a 250GB in mine, never gave me any problems at all.

You will need an install disk that includes a service pack. Pre-SP1 XP didn’t even have SATA support, so it wont even install on SATA disks. I made an install CD from my original CD and slipstreaming it with SP3.[/quote]

Ahh, so maybe SATA is the problem here. So if this Windows 2000 (an early version) doesn’t support SATA, I wonder how it managed to install itself on it (I checked what was on the hard drive afterwards and all the files were on there).

Anyway, I think I’ll go for XP. I have an unused legal disk sitting here anyway. Thanks Matthew and djlowballer.

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[quote=“irishstu”]Anyway, I think I’ll go for XP. I have an unused legal disk sitting here anyway. Thanks Matthew and djlowballer.[/quote]What version is it? Which service pack? You can use a program like Autostreamer to turn it into the latest version.

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I think it’s at least SP2 (Windows XP Home (not OEM)), but thanks for the advice about using Autostreamer if not.