When I had questions about Win2k and a large HDD, James Button pointed out that Win2k needs a patch to handle a drive over 137 GB.
<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305098> Maybe that is part of the problem. Maxtor had a program to fix the registry so I didn't have to manually edit it. > Okay, where to start.... > > Client running Win2k, has an 80gb hard drive, was running out of > space, it's got multiple partitions c-h, c is a primary > partition, the rest were extended > > partitions. The drive was actually only partitioned to use 40 of > the 80gb for some reason <shrug>.. > > So used ghost 2003 to clone the 80 to 160gb unit, many chose the > new partition sizes in ghost to match what the client needs > space. After cloning > > system, cleaned out spyware, did all windows and other missing > application updates etc. Thought it was all good, somewhere along > the way made some changes to the h: drive (downloads, pictures > and videos), rebooted, chkdsk ran and found errors on c: drive > and repaired them, it them got to H: drive and found a gazillion > errors. Rebooted with BartPE, fixed all filesystem errors. > Somewhere along the way, same thing happened again.... -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
