On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:39:14 +0100, "Ivan"
wrote:

[SNIP]

As Harry has pointed out mine is an early version of Windows 2000 (which I
have downloaded Service pack four for) and doesn't support 48bit LBA.
However I presume that this upgrade is something that must be incorporated
on the original installation disk.


It helps enormously if SP4 is incorporated onto the disk.

That was why I mentioned 'slipstream' in my previous post - that's
how you get such a disk.

Here is one site giving info on how to slipstream:
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2000_...pstreaming.htm

Regards,
Harry.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:39:14 +0100, Ivan
wrote:

Disk properties or drive properties? The latter is the formatted
capacity...

Under Disk 0 Properties it says, Capacity: 156328MB. Unallocated space:
25266MB. Under volume: capacity 131061MB.

OK, Win2k is detecting the disk correctly, it was the formatting which
incorrectly set the partition as 127MB. The figure the BIOS gives
(163.9GB) is correct with GB == 10^9 bytes (156328MB is 163,921,788,928
bytes). Adding the unallocated space to the existing volume space gives
the complete volume size.

So that's where your 'missing' 33GB has gone (some to the difference
between 'computer' and 'ISO' gigabytes, and the rest left unallocated by
the partitioning)...

As Harry has pointed out mine is an early version of Windows 2000 (which I
have downloaded Service pack four for) and doesn't support 48bit LBA.
However I presume that this upgrade is something that must be incorporated
on the original installation disk.

As far as I know SP4 can be downloaded and installed on an existing
system. But since Win2k seems to be detecting the disk properly it was
presumably the allocation and formatting which was in error. I believe
I used Partition Magic to partition my disk (that's what I usually do).

Chris C

"Harry Broomhall" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:39:14 +0100, "Ivan"
wrote:

[SNIP]

As Harry has pointed out mine is an early version of Windows 2000 (which
I
have downloaded Service pack four for) and doesn't support 48bit LBA.
However I presume that this upgrade is something that must be
incorporated
on the original installation disk.


It helps enormously if SP4 is incorporated onto the disk.

That was why I mentioned 'slipstream' in my previous post - that's
how you get such a disk.

Here is one site giving info on how to slipstream:
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2000_...pstreaming.htm

Regards,
Harry.


Thanks for your help Harry, I've given it a quick once a over and will be
making a new install disk within the next few days.
Pity about having to start all over again, however thirty gig of hard
drivespace is not to be sneezed at, especially when considering that I
originally started off with a 40 meg hard drive and one meg of memory :0)

"Ivan" wrote in message
. uk...

snip
Pity about having to start all over again, however thirty gig of
hard
drivespace is not to be sneezed at, especially when considering that
I
originally started off with a 40 meg hard drive and one meg of
memory :0)


I'm sure some will remember the days of having zero Kb's HDD and not
much more memory, oh and the 'chad' !....

"Chris Croughton" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:39:14 +0100, Ivan
wrote:

Disk properties or drive properties? The latter is the formatted
capacity...

Under Disk 0 Properties it says, Capacity: 156328MB. Unallocated space:
25266MB. Under volume: capacity 131061MB.

OK, Win2k is detecting the disk correctly, it was the formatting which
incorrectly set the partition as 127MB. The figure the BIOS gives
(163.9GB) is correct with GB == 10^9 bytes (156328MB is 163,921,788,928
bytes). Adding the unallocated space to the existing volume space gives
the complete volume size.

So that's where your 'missing' 33GB has gone (some to the difference
between 'computer' and 'ISO' gigabytes, and the rest left unallocated by
the partitioning)...

As Harry has pointed out mine is an early version of Windows 2000 (which
I
have downloaded Service pack four for) and doesn't support 48bit LBA.
However I presume that this upgrade is something that must be
incorporated
on the original installation disk.

As far as I know SP4 can be downloaded and installed on an existing
system. But since Win2k seems to be detecting the disk properly it was
presumably the allocation and formatting which was in error. I believe
I used Partition Magic to partition my disk (that's what I usually do).



Thanks Chris, and everyone else for taking the trouble to offer advice.

I have already installed service pack four into my existing set-up, however
from what I can gather this will have to be incorporated with my original
Win 2000 onto a new installation disk and the drive reformatted, the details
of how to make the updated version are on the URL that Harry has posted.

At around £80 I think I'll 'pass' on Partition Magic, especially as it may
only be used this once.


Chris C