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Cannot install Windows 2000 SP4 onto 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD
Hi,
I have an Intel Monterrey Motherboard (D850GB) and installed a new 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD. The BIOS on the board picked up the drive as a 121GB drive so I ran Disk Manager to install DDO to make the entire disk visible. When the PC reboots, I get the DDO (Ontrack) blue banner at the top and then a prompt saying "Press spacebar to boot from HD or press C to boot from CDROM". I press C, put in the install CD for Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 integrated and press the spacebar to continue and it boots from the hard drive, i.e. it ignores the CD. The CD is bottable as i have tested it on another machine. Any ideas how I can get Windows 2000 onto the HDD ? |
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"John" wrote in message ...
Hi, I have an Intel Monterrey Motherboard (D850GB) and installed a new 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD. The BIOS on the board picked up the drive as a 121GB drive so I ran Disk Manager to install DDO to make the entire disk visible. When the PC reboots, I get the DDO (Ontrack) blue banner at the top and then a prompt saying "Press spacebar to boot from HD or press C to boot from CDROM". I press C, put in the install CD for Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 integrated and press the spacebar to continue and it boots from the hard drive, i.e. it ignores the CD. The CD is bottable as i have tested it on another machine. Any ideas how I can get Windows 2000 onto the HDD ? Motherboards which include the Intel 850 Chipset should use Intel Application Accelerator see he http://support.intel.com/support/chi.../CS-009299.htm rather than overlay software such as Disk Manager. Another good source of info on this topic is he http://www.48bitlba.com/ Paul |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:07:59 -0000, "John"
wrote: Hi, I have an Intel Monterrey Motherboard (D850GB) and installed a new 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD. The BIOS on the board picked up the drive as a 121GB drive so I ran Disk Manager to install DDO to make the entire disk visible. Most likely all you needed to do was update the motherboard bios. When the PC reboots, I get the DDO (Ontrack) blue banner at the top and then a prompt saying "Press spacebar to boot from HD or press C to boot from CDROM". I press C, put in the install CD for Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 integrated and press the spacebar to continue and it boots from the hard drive, i.e. it ignores the CD. The CD is bottable as i have tested it on another machine. Any ideas how I can get Windows 2000 onto the HDD ? Why did you press the spacebar? Get rid of the DDO, flashing the board bios instead. |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:42:06 GMT The moonlight laughed on the blade's
edge when kony wrote : On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:07:59 -0000, "John" wrote: Hi, I have an Intel Monterrey Motherboard (D850GB) and installed a new 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD. The BIOS on the board picked up the drive as a 121GB drive so I ran Disk Manager to install DDO to make the entire disk visible. Most likely all you needed to do was update the motherboard bios. When the PC reboots, I get the DDO (Ontrack) blue banner at the top and then a prompt saying "Press spacebar to boot from HD or press C to boot from CDROM". I press C, put in the install CD for Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 integrated and press the spacebar to continue and it boots from the hard drive, i.e. it ignores the CD. The CD is bottable as i have tested it on another machine. Any ideas how I can get Windows 2000 onto the HDD ? Why did you press the spacebar? Get rid of the DDO, flashing the board bios instead. If there isn't a BIOS update a PCI hard disk controller card is a better bet than a DDO plus you get more IDE channels -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free original songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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There is no direct method of installing Windows 2000 on a single 160GB
partition. Even if the BIOS sees the entire 160GB, Windows 200 setup program will only recognize 128GB. If you insist on doing it, use some other program to partition and format the 160GB partition, Then install Windows 2000 in the normal way, using the existing file system. When installation is complete, use regedit to put EnableBigLba into the registry. Then run Disk Managment to see if shows the entire partition. I tried this before and it did work. On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:07:59 -0000, "John" wrote: Hi, I have an Intel Monterrey Motherboard (D850GB) and installed a new 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD. The BIOS on the board picked up the drive as a 121GB drive so I ran Disk Manager to install DDO to make the entire disk visible. When the PC reboots, I get the DDO (Ontrack) blue banner at the top and then a prompt saying "Press spacebar to boot from HD or press C to boot from CDROM". I press C, put in the install CD for Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 integrated and press the spacebar to continue and it boots from the hard drive, i.e. it ignores the CD. The CD is bottable as i have tested it on another machine. Any ideas how I can get Windows 2000 onto the HDD ? |
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Was that with SP 4 slipstreamed into the Win 2000 Installation CD
(Microsofts way of incorporating SPs into the setup media/file package)? Windows 2000 prior to SP4 will not see all of a drive above 128 GB so even if Win2k is installed and then the OS is upgraded, not all the drive will be seen because its already been partitioned (although the unpartitioned space should show up in Disk Management). I haven't tried this with Win2k but the XP SP1a installation CD sees all of my 250 GB drive on an Intel 820 chipset motherboard right from the outset whereas a non SP XP CD doesn't. One question for the OP - what is a Samsung SureSpin HDD - I thought the latest and greatest was the SpinPoint P80 series (I have 4 of them in my server and they're very quiet drives). Paul "Andy" wrote in message news There is no direct method of installing Windows 2000 on a single 160GB partition. Even if the BIOS sees the entire 160GB, Windows 200 setup program will only recognize 128GB. If you insist on doing it, use some other program to partition and format the 160GB partition, Then install Windows 2000 in the normal way, using the existing file system. When installation is complete, use regedit to put EnableBigLba into the registry. Then run Disk Managment to see if shows the entire partition. I tried this before and it did work. On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:07:59 -0000, "John" wrote: Hi, I have an Intel Monterrey Motherboard (D850GB) and installed a new 160GB Samsung SureSpin HDD. The BIOS on the board picked up the drive as a 121GB drive so I ran Disk Manager to install DDO to make the entire disk visible. When the PC reboots, I get the DDO (Ontrack) blue banner at the top and then a prompt saying "Press spacebar to boot from HD or press C to boot from CDROM". I press C, put in the install CD for Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 integrated and press the spacebar to continue and it boots from the hard drive, i.e. it ignores the CD. The CD is bottable as i have tested it on another machine. Any ideas how I can get Windows 2000 onto the HDD ? |
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