Partition Problem (Windows 2000 and Windows 7 daul boot)

[Kyle_77]

So I have 900GB hard disk and I installed Windows 2000 on it. Windows 2000 made a 127 GB partiton. I rezized that to 29.4 GB. Then I created a 94.3 GB partition for Windows 7. The daul boot works, and I can get into Windows 7 and 2000. But I have 800GB of unallcoated space. If I make the 7 partition bigger or make a 800 GB partition, I get a BSOD on Windows 2000. (inaccessible boot device). The only way to fix is to delete the 800GB partition or make the 7 partition.

 

[Solandri]

Hoo boy. Windows 2000 is old enough you're going to run into problems like this with larger disks. 900GB of storage back in those days would've cost you around $3000. Most drives were smaller than 100GB and There was a 130 GB partition size limit with Win 2k until one of the later service packs.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/community/threads/win-2000pro-partition-limit.79706/

I have not installed Win 2k natively on a large modern drive, so I dunno if the info that thread will help you fix the problem. Personally when it comes to OSes this old, I prefer to run them in a virtual machine like VMWare Player or VirtualBox or Microsoft Virtual PC.

 

[Kyle_77]

I think it's SP4

 

[alth0triplemadang]

wow, i'm amazed, you still using windows 2000? on physical pc?
for what?
the oldest os that still in service (although now isn't supported by Microsoft anymore) is Win XP!