installing big hard drives

[Jazzminka]

I tried to install a 60 gig HDD fdisked partitioned and formatted 3 partitions when i went to install windows 2000 professional the setup wouldnot recognise the hdd which is a western digital. I checked the bios seetings found the hdd and tried again only to be told that it required a manufactures setup disk and windows could not contiune to load press f3 to reboot the computer. I have tired several other methods. Can anyone advise me re this issue.

Also I want to install an western digital 80 gig drve as a slave is this method safe to do?

Thanks for advise in advance.

Sue

 

[jeremybarker]

Instead of creating the partitions through dos, try letting windows 2000 setup do it for you. Delete the partitions using windows setup, then create one partition of 20GB. Install W2K on that partition. Once you have windows booted, go through disk management and create the partitions there. I have a 40GB master and 80GB slave running w/ no problems.
Good Luck!

 

[mainegeek]

Are they FAT or NTFS?

 

[Jazzminka]

they were fat 32.. however thanks for the advise .. problem sorted out .. HDD died totally (was a brand new one too ) so got a new one that set up first go..

 

[Guest_imported]

How do I remove Western Digital's EZ-BIOS from a new hard drive I set to be the slave drive? I have my old 10 gig drive as the master drive and the new one is a 40 gig drive also a western digital drive. Should I set the bigger drive as the master or the smaller one.

 

[Snickle]

xman21, if your BIOS will support the large drives without the drive overlay, unplug the 10GB [to keep from losing anything], set the 40GB as Master, boot to a Win98 floppy, and at the A:\> prompt type fdisk /mbr. May have to reboot and do it again. Just make sure there is nothing on the drive that you haven't backed up. Then type fdisk and delete any non-DOS partitions that may exist. Escape back out, reboot, type fdisk and create any partitions you want.

That usually does it for me but did have a drive once that had to run the overlay software again to remove the overlay.

If I was doing it, I'd use DriveCopy to copy the 10GB to the 40GB and use the 40 as Master/boot drive. The 40 will be faster than the older 10.