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have been trying to install a new WD 200 GB EIDE drive on my
Abit VH6-II motherboard with bios 7F. This bios is supposed to
work for > 160 GB drives. I used the "data lifeguard tools"
included with the drive to partition, format and copy files from
my old fat 32 40 gig HD onto the new. The OS is the origional Win
2000 with SP4
installed over it before copying. When I unplug the old drive and
plug in the new, on booting I get the message "Error Loading OS".
If I boot up from the old drive with the new one as the slave (CS
selection), the OS sees the drive, and all the files seem to be
there.
I've also tried partitioning and copying with partition magic 7.
If I try to boot my system off the Windows 2000 CD, it doesn't
recognize the new drive. So I can't install directly to the new
drive. My understanding is that the early Win 2000 can't handle
drives > 137 MB.
I've tried changing the bios settings to force the drive to use
LBA or LARGE addressing - no change.
I've tried copying to a 40 gig fat32 partition in addition to
large and small NTFS partitions.
Any suggestions?
Bob
have been trying to install a new WD 200 GB EIDE drive on my
Abit VH6-II motherboard with bios 7F. This bios is supposed to
work for > 160 GB drives. I used the "data lifeguard tools"
included with the drive to partition, format and copy files from
my old fat 32 40 gig HD onto the new. The OS is the origional Win
2000 with SP4
installed over it before copying. When I unplug the old drive and
plug in the new, on booting I get the message "Error Loading OS".
If I boot up from the old drive with the new one as the slave (CS
selection), the OS sees the drive, and all the files seem to be
there.
I've also tried partitioning and copying with partition magic 7.
If I try to boot my system off the Windows 2000 CD, it doesn't
recognize the new drive. So I can't install directly to the new
drive. My understanding is that the early Win 2000 can't handle
drives > 137 MB.
I've tried changing the bios settings to force the drive to use
LBA or LARGE addressing - no change.
I've tried copying to a 40 gig fat32 partition in addition to
large and small NTFS partitions.
Any suggestions?
Bob