Text 46947, 71 rader
Skriven 2008-06-27 06:33:56 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
  Kommentar till text 46775 av Jeff Guerdat (1:124/311)
Ärende: MAX HDD size for Win2K?
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Hello Jeff,

    On Friday June 20 2008 at 11:55,
    Jeff Guerdat [1:124/311] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: Re: MAX HDD size for Win2K?

 >> At this point, I think that HFSLIP is possibly my best choice, but I
 >> am open to suggestions from more knowledgeable persons.

 JG> Check out Autostreamer, which is free:

 JG> http://www.ubcd4win.com/slipstream.htm

I did check it out but wasn't overly impressed - I went with nLite.  I
guess it really doesn't matter what program (personal preference) as long
as the task gets accomplished.

 >> You are correct about W2K Setup not detecting the SATA drives, but
 >> it did detect the 320GB PATA drive...  I went to the Intel web site
 >> to search for W2K SATA drivers - no luck, so I sent a brief note via
 >> their online email help request.  Now I wait.

 JG> As you note later in this message the BIOS has an "IDE" setting.
 JG> That, if I'm guessing correctly, will make the SATA drives appear to
 JG> the system as if they were PATA drives so no driver would be needed.
 JG> It's certainly worth a try.

This is exactly what happened.  I decided to temporarily forgo the Win2K
installation in favor of an XP installation for the wife.  NO RAID and XP
wouldn't recognize the other two drives as SATA.  Changed the BIOS SATA
drive setting to IDE drives and it was a success.

 >> On a side note, I notice that the BIOS can set the drives to IDE
 >> but, since these are SATA drives, I don't think they are detected as
 >> IDE drives.  Your opinion please.

 JG> That should just the BIOS and chipset twiddling things.  This is the
 JG> setting I'd try (there may be other similar but different settings to
 JG> try, also).  By the same token, if they're attached to the RAID
 JG> chipset, set up the RAID first (BIOS setup) and then just load the
 JG> driver during the OS install (either by installing the OS to the RAID
 JG> or to a PATA drive).  The RAID controller masks the drive architecture
 JG> - the OS just sees one big drive.  It's only if you're using the
 JG> drives individually that there's a SATA driver issue.

Does this imply that I can change the BIOS setting back to SATA _after_ I
have the OS installed and I wish to add more HDDs to the system?

I will probably redo the wife's system.  I installed Win XP Pro with SP2
from the retail CD and got the SP3 from the M$ website.  I think if I had
used nLite beforehand, I could have cut down on a lot of stuff that M$
installs and I have no use for.  As an example, I don't require all those
foreign language files, their corresponding keyboard layout files...  I can
also perform some "tweaks" that were previously available in the Powertoy's
TWEAK UI (which I can not locate; either for W2K or XP).  I should have
made a hard copy of the XP services that aren't essential and I could have
fix that all up in the nLite configuration...

I'm very satisfied with the nLite program - I learn more each time I use
it.  I am a little fuzzy about one aspect though...  It says to copy the
entire XP / W2K CD to a "Source" folder on the hard drive, but I'm thinking
that only the files in the CD root and the entire i386 folder are
necessary.  Care to give an opinion of my thinking?

Sorry for taking so long to reply, but my work is interfering with my life
and passions.  :-))

           Cheers ... Gerald

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