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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Is it just me or is this sort of a pain in the tukas and crazy ass crazy? Another long-winded story/question for the PC-gods who lurk here: I bought a new mobo/AMD Sempron combo to calm the demons in me that make me upgrade. I'd been exploring using a PC to interface directly with the home theatre. And so I did the big switcheroo placing the newest m/b in my work PC, the next oldest in my game PC and the old busta gear goes in my experimental theatre PC. Took a little tweaking and there was that [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/10/3577.html]graphics card power problem[/URL], but I got the gaming PC (running Win98SE) to see things my way. The theatre PC was using a leftover 8GB drive just to see if it would even work. It did. Splendidly even. Eventually. Again with a little tweaking. Then I fired up my work PC. [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/bsod_InaccesibleBootDevice.jpg]Oooops.[/URL] Ok, so I use a Mac most of the time. I didn't realize this was a really dumb thing to do. Apparently the Win 2K doesn't like you to switch the m/b and let's you know this using the friendly interface above. After several hours of finding this out on the intarweb, I realized what was happening (and you said I'd just come straight here...) And so, being the incredibly clever (not to mention handsome and charming) guy I am, I figured I'd just drop the old drive in the theatre PC (the new home of the old m/b) and then have access to all those installers and documents and gaming mods and other dumb stuff. And, actually, that worked. I was able to get a bunch of installers over to my gaming PC (whose HD I'd cleverly erased while upgrading to a larger drive). So I figured I'd just do a clean install of Win 2K on a WD 160GB drive I hadn't done anything with. The old install (and it was old) had gotten gunked up with some adware from Kazaa (before I knew) and an SBC install disk their company is trying to forget. With a little effort, this was done. Except that Win2K Pro (no SPs) doesn't recognize drives larger than 120GB. I didn't even want to install this disk in this machine in the first place. After mucking about in the BIOS and spending hours on the internet I was finally able to figure out what had happened. After scratching my head and reading about a dozen ill-advised workarounds, I decided to use my Win98SE rescue disk to run fdisk to delete the NTFS partition (thanks M$!). It seemed to recognize that my drive was bigger than that and so I had it make a primary DOS partition. And then rebooted with the Win2K Pro CD and did a new install. That took all of last night and I figured either it would see the drive as 120GB and do all that over again or it would recognize that it was much bigger than it originally thought and work right. And after much to do, today it says the drive has a capacity of 149GB. I'm not sure if that's what it should be, but that's more than 120GB last I checked. What I'm wondering is whether the PC gurus here might know a better way of doing all this. Maybe even something I can do before I re-install all my old shit. Because this seems like it was a [i]hyuuuuge[/i] pain and way more complicated than it needed to be. [i](Did I mention that last month I installed a processor upgrade in my five-year-old G4 thus trippling it's clockspeed and it just worked right away?)[/i] Any insights you could lend would be appreciated. As well as letting me know if that 149GB capacity sounds right. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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