[dba-SQLServer]Win2K Large Hard Disk Support

Francisco H Tapia my.lists at verizon.net
Tue Sep 23 00:42:50 CDT 2003


John Colby wrote:
> For anyone interested (and willing to risk installing MS Service Packs ;-)
> 
> Here is the knowledgebase article that discuses Windows 2000 lack of support
> for large hard disks prior to SP3.  Watch line wrap.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:
> 80/support/kb/articles/q305/0/98.asp&NoWebContent=1
> 

Very interesting, tho the article seems to imply that the primary 
partition should not exceed the 137gigs, which is sound advice.  This 
could be why you have been experiencing this problem.  It also did 
mention that you should have a compatible bios.  If you have not updated 
your bios, it may be necessary to do that first.



-- 
-Francisco




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