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Description of Disk Groups in Windows 2000 Disk Management
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 222189. Describes Dynamic Disks and Disk Groups in Windows
2000.
How to Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 223188 Describes how to change the system or boot drive letter in Windows 2000. For the most part, this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows 2000 was installed.
The only time that you may want to do this is when the drive letters get changed without any user intervention. This may happen
when you break a mirror volume or there is a drive configuration change. This should be a rare occurrence and you should change the
drive letters back to match the initial installation.
How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 183322 Describes how to enable disk quotas in Windows
2000.
HOW TO: Enable UDMA66 Mode on Intel Chipsets
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 247951 - By default, the UDMA66
mode is disabled on a Windows computer with a Intel chipset that
supports UDMA66. This is by design.
How to Manually Enable/Disable Disk Write Caching
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 259716 - Some third-party programs require disk write caching to be enabled or disabled. In addition, enabling disk write caching may increase operating system performance. This article describes how to enable or disable disk write
caching.
How to Extend the Disk Space of an Existing Shared Disk with Windows Clustering
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 263590 - This article discusses how to extend the disk space of a hardware-defined disk with Windows Clustering. If you add additional space to an existing cluster server disk at the hardware level, you must perform additional steps to ensure that the
computer system recognizes this additional disk space.
How to Format an Existing Partition on a Shared Cluster Hard Disk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 257937 - This article describes how to format an existing hard disk or partition on a shared cluster hard disk or partition. You may need to do this if there is NTFS file system damage on a cluster hard disk resource that the chkdsk command
cannot repair, or if you want to reformat a partition to start with a known good file system state and known good data. To do this, you may need to format one or all of the existing shared hard disks, including the quorum hard disk. In Windows 2000, if a program or service has an open
file, you cannot format the hard disk on which the file is open. You cannot format the quorum hard disk when the Cluster service is running.
How to Manually Enable/Disable Disk Write Caching
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 259716 - Some third-party programs require disk write caching to be enabled or disabled. In addition, enabling disk write caching may increase operating system performance. This article describes how to enable or disable disk write caching.
How to Overcome 4,095-MB Paging File Size Limit in Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 237740. When you are setting the paging file size in Windows 2000, the documentation states that the largest paging file you can select is 4,095 megabytes (MB). This is the limit set per volume; you can actually create paging files this large on one or
more drives.
How to Use Diskpart.exe to Extend a Data Volume
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 325590 -
This article describes how to use the Diskpart.exe command-line utility to extend a data volume into unallocated space.
Moving Windows NT Basic Disk FT Sets to a Windows 2000 Computer
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 253110 - When you upgrade a computer from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 and that computer contains fault tolerant Disk sets (FT sets - Stripe Sets with Parity, Stripe Sets, Volume Sets and Mirrors), Setup automatically migrates the FT
set
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