Hello. I just put a new 250GB HD in a Win2000 Server SP4 computer. I updated
the motherboard BIOS to support drives larger than 130GB and I also edited
the Windows registry to "EnableBigLba". The BIOS can see the drive (reports
250GB) and also Windows can see the drive (reports 233GB). However if I open
Disk Management to partition the drive, the drive icon shows up with a
"prohibited" sign on it and I cannot partition the drive or do anything with
it. It can be seen (in Disk Management) but it cannot be used in any way. Any
ideas what the problem may be?

thanks so much
christos

"Christos Kritikos" <ChristosKritikos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C102E7BB-7161-49FC-9725-7E9A596B8508@microsoft.com...
> Hello. I just put a new 250GB HD in a Win2000 Server SP4 computer. I
updated
> the motherboard BIOS to support drives larger than 130GB and I also edited
> the Windows registry to "EnableBigLba". The BIOS can see the drive
(reports
> 250GB) and also Windows can see the drive (reports 233GB). However if I
open
> Disk Management to partition the drive, the drive icon shows up with a
> "prohibited" sign on it and I cannot partition the drive or do anything
with
> it. It can be seen (in Disk Management) but it cannot be used in any way.
Any
> ideas what the problem may be?

You can't even write a signature to it?

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- Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP)
- Abolish Public Schools

So where is it seen in Windows?

"Christos Kritikos" <ChristosKritikos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C102E7BB-7161-49FC-9725-7E9A596B8508@microsoft.com...
> Hello. I just put a new 250GB HD in a Win2000 Server SP4 computer. I
updated
> the motherboard BIOS to support drives larger than 130GB and I also edited
> the Windows registry to "EnableBigLba". The BIOS can see the drive
(reports
> 250GB) and also Windows can see the drive (reports 233GB). However if I
open
> Disk Management to partition the drive, the drive icon shows up with a
> "prohibited" sign on it and I cannot partition the drive or do anything
with
> it. It can be seen (in Disk Management) but it cannot be used in any way.
Any
> ideas what the problem may be?
>
> thanks so much
> christos
>
>

"Gary Chanson" wrote:

> You can't even write a signature to it?

this was it! I was clicking on the wrong place (embarassing!!) so it
wouldn't give me an option to write signature. Thanx! -ck