re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:38 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jesse (20 messages posted) I already have Service Pack 4 and I added the registry setting for enabling the 48 bit support. I might go buy the USB card. I looked online and they aren't incredibly expensive. I'm just using it as an inexpensive network storage server. The computer itself works perfectly fine for what I need it for so I really don't want to replace it just yet. On Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:01 am, Steve wrote: >A usb 2.0 pci card will help, you also need sp 4 to solve some 48 bit addressing >problems that windows has on Drives larger then 137 gigs. Doubt the old Computer >is worth spending to much money on though. XP would take up half your Hard Drive >before you installed any programs, and you really couldn't install much more. For >about 35 bucks you could just replace the old 4 gig drive with a internal 120 gig >drive, which is what I would do if I wanted to get another year or two out of the >Computer. Written in response to: re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Steve: Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:01 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Sun, Apr 19, 2009, 9:14 pm) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Steve: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 6:28 am) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 6:53 am) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Steve: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 7:01 am) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 12:38 pm) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (resolved) (Jesse: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 8:10 pm) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (DEX: Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 7:45 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum