First post, by Winzozz
Hello everyone, I'm new here.
I have a Windows 2000 Installation CD with SP4 installed, the problem is when I install it on my computer that haves a 500GB HDD the installation CD it recognizes it as a 128GB.
I tried installing anyway, but I couldn't progress much further.
My motherboard supports large disk drives, so it's not the motherboard.
My hard disk is fine, as I installed Windows XP Professional SP2 countless times.
I heard on internet that Windows 2000 CD haves this bug that I explained above, but people says it has been fixed with SP4, but I have SP4 on my installation CD but it still doesn't work.
My installation CD is in Italian, so I can't add English only patches.
I also heard that there is a simple registry file tweak on the Windows 2000 CD to enable big hard disks, but so far I found little about it and it's not really straightforward.
Do you people know how to resolve this problem?
I'll add some links that I found related to it:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/217385-46 … ge-disk-support
https://www.hardwareheaven.com/community/thre … on-limit.79706/
https://msfn.org/board/topic/135991-largest-s … ndows-2000-sp4/
Especially on the last link there is "WildBill" that says:
"I've got a 1Tb drive working on my Win2k box, formatted NTFS. I had to have EnableBigLBA turned on, but otherwise I've had no issues."
I'm looking to "EnableBigLBA", but so far no clear guides about it.