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I have a two hard drive setup, a 60gb and a 200gb. The 60gb is the master, containing my OS, and the 200gb is my data drive, for games, videos and the like. Up until now, I have been running Windows XP, and getting the full use of my 200gb. I have switched to Windows 2k, and now it limits the drive size to 127gb. I have tried formatting it many times with different file systems (fat32, ntfs) but with no success. The cables are all plugged in properly, and the jumpers set correctly. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
 
First of all, if I understand your configuration correctly, it's a bad idea on general principles to have two hard-drives on the same IDE cable as the slave will run a lot slower than it needs to. You'd be better off putting them on separate cables and using your CD/DVD drive as a slave.

As for the 137GB problem, this is a known issue with Windows. What you need is something called 48-bit Logical Block Addressing. Check out this page which should answer your question.
 
I have 2 IDE channels, 2 hard drives, and 2 cd/dvd drives. My current setup is IDE channel 1 is the master and slave hard drives, and IDE channel 2 is the CD/DVD drives. You're saying throw a hard drive and a cd/dvd drive on channel 1, and the same with channel 2?

Edit: I looked at that microsoft page, and it says the problem is prior to SP2, yet I installed with sp3, and ive already installed sp4, and the problem still remains.
 
Your mobo might not support drives over 127GB, check the manufacturers website for relevant BIOS updates!
 
No its a software problem pelvis. Have you tried the instructions on that page as to changing the registry?
 
My mobo DOES support drives over 127 gb, because I had it working to the full extent when I was on WinXP.
Addis: Yes, I have edited the registry. I went in, to create the key like the microsoft instructions said, but it was already created, with the right values. This makes absolutely no sense to me, thanks for the help though heh.
 
StimpE said:
I have 2 IDE channels, 2 hard drives, and 2 cd/dvd drives. My current setup is IDE channel 1 is the master and slave hard drives, and IDE channel 2 is the CD/DVD drives. You're saying throw a hard drive and a cd/dvd drive on channel 1, and the same with channel 2?
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Basically, yes. Granted, such an arrangement will be difficult to set-up due to the physical limits of the IDE cable but performance-wise it would be a big improvement.

As for your motherboard supporting large hard-drives, that's something of a myth. Right now I have a 200GB hard-drive providing file-sharing services to a small network from an ancient Socket 7 motherboard. 200GB hard-drives were probably science fantasy when that motherboard was manufactured and the BIOS refuses to have anything to do with it and doesn't recognise its existence. Nevertheless when I installed Linux on the computer it didn't seem to give a crap what the BIOS thought and happily ran the hard-drive anyway. If your OS can't run the hard-drive then it's probably time to upgrade your OS!

Finally, perhaps you could try to partition the hard-drive into portions less than 127GB each, I don't know if that will work but it's probably worth a try.
 
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