markiemrboo Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 I would like to enable the 48 bit LBA hard disk support on my Windows 2000 CD by default. While support is there for 48 bit with SP3 or more, you still have to add a registry entry to properly enable it (stupid stupid stupid stupid!). Just wondering if there's any way to make it so this is done automatically in the install or something. Not sure if the registry file is copied from a template on the CD somewhere, or generated on the fly during the install. I've already got a copy with SP3 slipstreamed or whatever you call it, so that's no problem, just the registry entry... Any ideas? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some_Guy_ Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 You can create an unattended install using something like nlite and run a .reg file to do the registry change, can't you? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 You can create an unattended install using something like nlite and run a .reg file to do the registry change, can't you? 482549[/snapback] To be honest I have absolutely no idea. That would be why I am asking. Can I? Also, I always partition the disk with Windows on in to two, usually 10-20GB for just Windows and Program Files poop. I've done that here, 20GB for windows and the rest for whatever. This saves having to copy data, as I just format the Windows partition and reinstall. If I do this... I assume 48 bit support isn't enabled in the install either? So, does this mean that it's going to corrupt any data on the disk over the 32bit limit during the install anyway? Or is the installer smart enough to figure out that I need 48 bit enabled (silly question really, of course it's not! )? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some_Guy_ Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 Check this site out: http://unattended.msfn.org. It tells you step-by-step how to create a custom unattended install disc. It's geared toward XP, but 2000 should be the same. Create a .reg file to run after the install is done. It should be able to do that automatically. While you're at it, you can get it to install chipset drivers and so on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted May 25, 2005 Posted May 25, 2005 Check this site out: http://unattended.msfn.org. It tells you step-by-step how to create a custom unattended install disc. It's geared toward XP, but 2000 should be the same. Create a .reg file to run after the install is done. It should be able to do that automatically. While you're at it, you can get it to install chipset drivers and so on. 482557[/snapback] Thanks. I just now made a SP4 CD (been meaning to do that for quite a while). The setup... well, I have no idea what was going on there. It detected my whole disk as 137GB, but then... it detected the second partition as 180GB ish. Clever stuff! Hopefully just an annoying bug in the installer... My BIOS also decided that it didn't want to use LBA mode when set to "auto" on the primary disk in BIOS, NOPE, It'd much rather piss me off and use CHS for the first drive (god knows why). I found this out after I went through the setup, installed, rebooted.. only to find out it wouldn't boot because it was using CHS. I forced them both to LBA and it's managed to install andddd I don't appear to have lost anything I copied over to the second partition earlier at all! I'll check out that nlite thing later, after much testing and setting up, too. Looks like a handy thing to have around... and it's freee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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