Yes.
Windows 2000 has no native support for SATA drives. If you have a slipstreamed CD with service pack 4, and the drivers for the SATA controller, you can install it. If not, you will have to run the SATA controller in emulation mode, so that Windows 2000 thinks that it is an IDE drive.
For drives over 32 GB, Windows 2000 defaults to NTFS. FAT32 is also available for drives under 32 GB.
No the OS simply can't handle it many of the hardware that spore requires wont run to its potential in windows 2000
Atmost four drives can be mapped to a windows 2000 operating system computer. It can have different names like z name can be used for a drive.
My Computer
Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, and ME can support a maximum of 26 drives or logical partitions. Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, and 7 can support several thousand drives / partitions in a system.
windows 2000 Professional windows 2000 sever windows 2000 standard edition windows 2000 home edition
The real question is can you hardware handle an upgrade. I would check the Vista hardware requirements and make sure your PC is up to the challenge.
the four operating system found in the windows 2000 suite are : windows 2000 professional windows 2000 server windows 2000 advanced server windows 2000 datacenter server
Windows NT is what Windows 2000 is upgraded from.
Windows XP Professional is an upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional. Windows Server 2003 is an upgrade to Windows 2000 Server.