| 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 |
