300 GB HD Issue

[fatali]

I believe he has tried using multiple partitions, but he's not online and I don't have his phone number to find out.

[Backdated]

As far as 48 bit transfer is concerned, it's really quite easy to understand if kept simple. It's the "address width" in bits of the data bus.
Much more data can be simultaneously transferred over a 32 bit wide bus than across a 16 bit wide bus.
It is a fair bit more involved than this but think of the difference in traffic moving capability of a narrow country road and an 8 lane motorway.

[GX1_Man]

I believe he has tried using multiple partitions, but he's not online and I don't have his phone number to find out.

Maybe your friend should post his questions.  

[fatali]

He doesn't usualy check out help forums, I just thought I'd try to help him out.  

Just spoke to him, he got it working.

[GX1_Man]

Just out of curiosity how did the situation resolve?

[fatali]

Had to do some registry editing.   2000 doesn't have EnableBigLBA  enabled by default so, after getting SP4  you have to go into the registry and change the value of EnableBigLBA to 1.

This is what I had found: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/en-us  


He did the same thing, except he found some software that came with a Hdd that did the registry editing for him.