large hard drive support

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Hi All,
I am looking for a way to get an old 2000 server to see a 500 gig drive. I have enabled the large drive support but the drive won't show all of its space. It is a seagate drive. I use to use maxblast and when I downloaded it I got an error. It said it wouldn't load on windows 2000 server. It is only for windows 2000 pro.

Anyone have a work around?

Thanks

[Geek-9pm]

You need all the Windows 2000 server updates. And even then, you may have to make an entry in the registry.

The following conditions are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit LBA ATAPI support:
    A computer with a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) installed.
    A computer with a hard disk that has a capacity of greater than 137 gigabytes (GB).
    You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters   

Read this over. It includes Windows 2000 server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098

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Howdy Geek,
I have done the registry change already and the server has all the patches and updates installed. It is a fresh install. The problem I am having is I was using a old version of maxblast to run the drive. I went on the web to get the new version which I did. When I run the install it stops and says that I have to call the sales office because the new version will not run on a server....only workstations.

I will try to find version 3 which I think will still run on a server.

Thanks
 

[Spoiler]

I have done some reading and found that the backend of the lastest verion of MaxBlast 5 is Acronis. The program is now really a disk image software. It use to be for creating a way for the older systems to read bigger hard drives.

I downloaded MaxBlast 3.6. This makes a floppy you can boot from to load the software and see the larger drives. I am going to give it a try later tonight.

Thanks

[kimsland]

MaxBlast Minimum system requirements

Maxtor MaxBlast requires the following hardware:
• At least one Seagate Technology or Maxtor disc drive
• Pentium processor or higher
• 128 MB RAM
• FDD or CD-RW drive for bootable media creation
• Mouse (recommended).

Supported operating systems
• Minimum Windows® 2000 Professional SP 4

[patio]

Forget the MaxBlast software...DLoad and run the SeaTools from Seagate as they bought Maxtor and made the diagnostics backwards compatible for older Maxxtor HDD's.
Get the one that runs from a bootable CD...

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Hi Patio,
I don't understand how the SeaTools will help me. The drive is fine it's just in a old computer that can't see a large drive 500 gigs.

Can seatools work with a win2000 server to see a bigger drive?

Thanks

[Geek-9pm]

Here is the manual for Maxtor MaxBlast™ 5
http://www.seagate.com/support/maxblast/mb_ug.en.pdf

Operating system preparation instructions:
Windows Vista
Windows XP / Windows 2000
Windows 98/ME
MacOS 10.x

[BC_Programmer]

Hi Patio,
I don't understand how the SeaTools will help me. The drive is fine it's just in a old computer that can't see a large drive 500 gigs.

Can seatools work with a win2000 server to see a bigger drive?

Thanks

If it's the computer that can't see the drive, than I'm not sure why you are blaming Windows 2000.

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I am not blaming Windows 2000. I was just explaining what I tried to do to fix this. What I was trying to do was load a drive overlay program, in this case maxblast, to get the machine to run a large drive. When I tried to load maxblast 5 I got a error saying that it wouldn't run on windows 2000 server.

I found a older copy of maxblast. Version 3.6 and loaded it onto a floppy and booted the machine. I was able to load it so now I can run the big drive I wanted.

Thanks for everyones help.

[BC_Programmer]

Oh. A Driver Overlay Program.

Typically, the only people willing to use a Drive Overlay program are those that haven't before...

[patio]

Excellent point !