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Answer» <html><body><p>Hi All,<br/>I am looking for a way to get an old 2000 server to see a 500 gig drive. I have enabled the large drive support but the drive won't show all of its space. It is a seagate drive. I use to use maxblast and when I downloaded it I got an error. It said it wouldn't load on windows 2000 server. It is only for windows 2000 pro.<br/><br/>Anyone have a work around?<br/><br/>Thanks<br/>You need all the <strong>Windows 2000 server</strong> updates. And even then, you may have to make an entry in the registry.<br/> Quote</p><blockquote>The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/following-463335" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FOLLOWING">FOLLOWING</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/conditions-424384" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONDITIONS">CONDITIONS</a> are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit LBA ATAPI support:<br/>    A computer with a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) installed.<br/>    A computer with a hard disk that has a capacity of greater than 137 gigabytes (GB).<br/>    You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:<br/>    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters   </blockquote> Read this over. It includes Windows 2000 server<br/><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098</a>Howdy Geek,<br/>I have done the registry change already and the server has all the patches and updates installed. It is a fresh install. The problem I am having is I was using a old version of maxblast to run the drive. I <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/went-734459" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WENT">WENT</a> on the web to get the new version which I did. When I run the install it stops and says that I have to call the sales office because the new version will not run on a server....only workstations.<br/><br/>I will try to find version 3 which I think will still run on a server.<br/><br/>Thanks<br/> I have done some reading and found that the backend of the lastest verion of MaxBlast 5 is Acronis. The program is now really a disk image software. It use to be for creating a way for the older systems to read bigger hard drives. <br/><br/>I downloaded MaxBlast 3.6. This makes a floppy you can boot from to load the software and see the larger drives. I am going to give it a try later tonight.<br/><br/>Thanks<br/>MaxBlast Minimum system requirements<br/><br/>Maxtor MaxBlast requires the following hardware:<br/>• At least one Seagate Technology or Maxtor disc drive<br/>• Pentium processor or higher<br/>• 128 MB RAM<br/>• FDD or CD-RW drive for bootable media creation<br/>• Mouse (recommended).<br/><br/>Supported operating systems<br/>• Minimum Windows® 2000 Professional SP 4Forget the MaxBlast software...DLoad and run the SeaTools from Seagate as they bought Maxtor and made the diagnostics backwards compatible for older Maxxtor HDD's.<br/>Get the one that runs from a bootable CD...Hi Patio,<br/>I don't understand how the SeaTools will help me. The drive is fine it's just in a old computer that can't see a large drive 500 gigs. <br/><br/>Can seatools work with a win2000 server to see a bigger drive?<br/><br/>Thanks<br/>Here is the manual for Maxtor MaxBlast™ 5 <br/><a href="http://www.seagate.com/support/maxblast/mb_ug.en.pdf">http://www.seagate.com/support/maxblast/mb_ug.en.pdf</a><br/> Quote<blockquote>Operating system preparation instructions:<br/>Windows Vista<br/>Windows <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/xp-747558" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about XP">XP</a> / Windows 2000<br/>Windows 98/ME<br/>MacOS 10.x</blockquote> Quote from: Spoiler on November 28, 2011, 12:45:35 PM<blockquote>Hi Patio,<br/>I don't understand how the SeaTools will help me. The drive is fine it's just in a old computer that can't see a large drive 500 gigs. <br/><br/>Can seatools work with a win2000 server to see a bigger drive?<br/><br/>Thanks<br/></blockquote> <br/>If it's the computer that can't see the drive, than I'm not sure why you are blaming Windows 2000.I am not blaming Windows 2000. I was just explaining what I tried to do to fix this. What I was trying to do was load a drive overlay program, in this case maxblast, to get the machine to run a large drive. When I tried to load maxblast 5 I got a error saying that it wouldn't run on windows 2000 server. <br/><br/>I found a older copy of maxblast. Version 3.6 and loaded it onto a floppy and booted the machine. I was able to load it so now I can run the big drive I wanted.<br/><br/>Thanks for everyones help.<br/><br/>Oh. A <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/driveraeur-442990" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DRIVER">DRIVER</a> Overlay Program.<br/><br/>Typically, the only people willing to use a Drive Overlay program are those that haven't before...Excellent point !</body></html>


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