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Before performing any troubleshooting with large capacity drives in Windows 2000, confirm that you have Service Pack 3 or higher.START -> RUN -> compmgmt.msc:1 Check to make sure you have SP3 or higher, SP4 is recommended for Windows 2000:2 Any motherboard that has SATA it is likely the bios also detects the full disk size up to 1TB:3 If SP level is correct, The OS will have to be updated to enable LBA ::a You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters 1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). 2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters 3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value: Value name: EnableBigLba Data type: REG_DWORD Value data: 0x1 :4 Restart the installation with the appropriately patched operating system.::a For a boot drive::::You may use a 3rd party "partition stretch utility.":::You may also create a 2nd partition on the boot drive with Windows Disk Management, to have more than one partition on the drive.