Why does win 2000 only see 130 gb of my 160GB drive? SP4 is installed.....
mc

In order to recognise large drives both bios & win has to support large
drives
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;305098

"mc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Why does win 2000 only see 130 gb of my 160GB drive? SP4 is installed.....
> mc
>

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:47:08 -0500, "mc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Why does win 2000 only see 130 gb of my 160GB drive? SP4 is installed.....
>mc
>
It should see about 156, remember sellers are selling 160.0GB but the is by
decimal 1000 - whereas for computers it have tro be divided by 1024 to get the
right number

Start/run/regedit
(if unsure export registry for safety)
select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
right click for new
Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
set value to 1
end regedit
reboot

That will correct it

B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia

Thanks DL and nesredep I'll give it a try
mc
"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:47:08 -0500, "mc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Why does win 2000 only see 130 gb of my 160GB drive? SP4 is installed.....
>>mc
>>
> It should see about 156, remember sellers are selling 160.0GB but the is
> by
> decimal 1000 - whereas for computers it have tro be divided by 1024 to get
> the
> right number
>
> Start/run/regedit
> (if unsure export registry for safety)
> select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
> system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
> right click for new
> Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
> set value to 1
> end regedit
> reboot
>
> That will correct it
>
> B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia
>