Continuation of previous posting. I completed a fresh
install of XP Pro on a new WD160GB hard drive. WD
software warned going over 137 w/o SP1 and so I installed
that way to later incorporate the service pack. So far
I've been unsucessful freeing up the unallocated 21GB.
Currently, the bios recognizes 160GB, I've installed SP1,
the hotfix for atapi.sys, entered the registry line for
EnableBigLba, used Disk Manager to attempt to create a
primary partition on the 21GB of unallocated space and
when completing the wizard get a Logical Drive Manager
error message that states the task couldn't be completed
and refers me to the event log to find the error. No
errors are listed. Can anyone help?

One suggestion:

Make up a copy of the XP install CD with SP1 "slipstreamed " onto it. Here's
one recipe for doing that:

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?...cle.cfm&id=160

(This is for Nero, but there's a link for using Roxio Easy CD Creator.)

I used such a disk to do a clean install onto a WD1600JD (160GB SATA) drive
a couple of days ago. I didn't need to do anything additional to get the
full capacity of the drive.

HTH.

Address altered to avoid spam. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Jim Black" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:069001c3da41$1418b9c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Continuation of previous posting. I completed a fresh
> install of XP Pro on a new WD160GB hard drive. WD
> software warned going over 137 w/o SP1 and so I installed
> that way to later incorporate the service pack. So far
> I've been unsucessful freeing up the unallocated 21GB.
> Currently, the bios recognizes 160GB, I've installed SP1,
> the hotfix for atapi.sys, entered the registry line for
> EnableBigLba, used Disk Manager to attempt to create a
> primary partition on the 21GB of unallocated space and
> when completing the wizard get a Logical Drive Manager
> error message that states the task couldn't be completed
> and refers me to the event log to find the error. No
> errors are listed. Can anyone help?

I used Partition Magic to fix this problem.

-Kent

Thanks for the info. Since I already have a fair number
of setups completed and programs installed I wouldn't
want to start over. The extra expense of Partition Magic
is something I'll probably reserve for if and when the
extra 21Gb becomes necessary. I was just hoping for a
simple solution I'm overlooking.

Regards - Jim
>-----Original Message-----
>One suggestion:
>
>Make up a copy of the XP install CD with
SP1 "slipstreamed " onto it. Here's
>one recipe for doing that:
>
>http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?
object=article.cfm&id=160
>
>(This is for Nero, but there's a link for using Roxio
Easy CD Creator.)
>
>I used such a disk to do a clean install onto a WD1600JD
(160GB SATA) drive
>a couple of days ago. I didn't need to do anything
additional to get the
>full capacity of the drive.
>
>HTH.
>
>Address altered to avoid spam. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
>"Jim Black" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in message
>news:069001c3da41$1418b9c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Continuation of previous posting. I completed a fresh
>> install of XP Pro on a new WD160GB hard drive. WD
>> software warned going over 137 w/o SP1 and so I
installed
>> that way to later incorporate the service pack. So far
>> I've been unsucessful freeing up the unallocated 21GB.
>> Currently, the bios recognizes 160GB, I've installed
SP1,
>> the hotfix for atapi.sys, entered the registry line for
>> EnableBigLba, used Disk Manager to attempt to create a
>> primary partition on the 21GB of unallocated space and
>> when completing the wizard get a Logical Drive Manager
>> error message that states the task couldn't be
completed
>> and refers me to the event log to find the error. No
>> errors are listed. Can anyone help?
>
>
>.
>

You can use BootIt NG to do the same things that Partition Manager can do.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html



--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

"Jim Black" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:063601c3da4a$31b18b20$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the info. Since I already have a fair number
> of setups completed and programs installed I wouldn't
> want to start over. The extra expense of Partition Magic
> is something I'll probably reserve for if and when the
> extra 21Gb becomes necessary. I was just hoping for a
> simple solution I'm overlooking.
>
> Regards - Jim
> >-----Original Message-----
> >One suggestion:
> >
> >Make up a copy of the XP install CD with
> SP1 "slipstreamed " onto it. Here's
> >one recipe for doing that:
> >
> >http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?
> object=article.cfm&id=160
> >
> >(This is for Nero, but there's a link for using Roxio
> Easy CD Creator.)
> >
> >I used such a disk to do a clean install onto a WD1600JD
> (160GB SATA) drive
> >a couple of days ago. I didn't need to do anything
> additional to get the
> >full capacity of the drive.
> >
> >HTH.
> >
> >Address altered to avoid spam. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
> >
> >"Jim Black" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> in message
> >news:069001c3da41$1418b9c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Continuation of previous posting. I completed a fresh
> >> install of XP Pro on a new WD160GB hard drive. WD
> >> software warned going over 137 w/o SP1 and so I
> installed
> >> that way to later incorporate the service pack. So far
> >> I've been unsucessful freeing up the unallocated 21GB.
> >> Currently, the bios recognizes 160GB, I've installed
> SP1,
> >> the hotfix for atapi.sys, entered the registry line for
> >> EnableBigLba, used Disk Manager to attempt to create a
> >> primary partition on the 21GB of unallocated space and
> >> when completing the wizard get a Logical Drive Manager
> >> error message that states the task couldn't be
> completed
> >> and refers me to the event log to find the error. No
> >> errors are listed. Can anyone help?
> >
> >
> >.
> >