Folks:


Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older machine.
This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.

* How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire 200 G
capacity of the hard drive ?

Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller
card.

Is this true & if so explain briefly
how the controller card solves the problem?



Thanks,
Jo.

> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire 200 G
> capacity of the hard drive ?

turn it into a republican....


<JoJo> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Folks:
>
>
> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older machine.
> This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
>
> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire 200 G
> capacity of the hard drive ?
>
> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller
> card.
>
> Is this true & if so explain
> briefly how the controller card solves the problem?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jo.
>

<JoJo> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Folks:
>
>
> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
> machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
> 200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
>
> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
>
> Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
> solves the problem?

This sounds like you are hitting the 33.8 GB Limit discussed in:

"History of BIOS and IDE limits"
<http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html>
and also
<http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/Limits.htm>

The preferred solution is to upgrade your BIOS. Go to the
manufacture's web site of your motherboard and look for a BIOS
upgrade. Some older machines cannot upgrade the BIOS.

A controller card could work so long as you are not booting from
this drive. A controller card would have its own driver that would
work under Windows and circumvent this problem -- however, your
machine boots under BIOS so a controller card will probably only
help once your system is booted and Windows can take over.

HTH,
John

In the past an "overlay" utility provided by the HD manufacturer provided
for access to large HDs - usually included with the installation disk..

"John Wunderlich" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns97FE83298C8FBwunderpsdrscraytheon@138.126.254.210...
> <JoJo> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> Folks:
>>
>>
>> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
>> machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
>> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
>> 200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
>>
>> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
>>
>> Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
>> solves the problem?
>
> This sounds like you are hitting the 33.8 GB Limit discussed in:
>
> "History of BIOS and IDE limits"
> <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html>
> and also
> <http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/Limits.htm>
>
> The preferred solution is to upgrade your BIOS. Go to the
> manufacture's web site of your motherboard and look for a BIOS
> upgrade. Some older machines cannot upgrade the BIOS.
>
> A controller card could work so long as you are not booting from
> this drive. A controller card would have its own driver that would
> work under Windows and circumvent this problem -- however, your
> machine boots under BIOS so a controller card will probably only
> help once your system is booted and Windows can take over.
>
> HTH,
> John

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:53:37 GMT, John Wunderlich <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

><JoJo> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> Folks:
>>
>>
>> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
>> machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
>> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
>> 200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
>>
>> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
>>
>> Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
>> solves the problem?
>
You could try this:
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

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

nesredep egrob wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:53:37 GMT, John Wunderlich
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> <JoJo> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):
>>
>>> Folks:
>>>
>>>
>>> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
>>> machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
>>> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
>>> 200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
>>>
>>> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
>>>
>>> Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
>>> solves the problem?
>>
> You could try this:
> Start/run/regedit


No, if his BIOS doesn't support the drive (and that's what he says) this
won't work. Nothing you do in Windows will make visible something the BIOS
can't see.

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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:11:16 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>nesredep egrob wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:53:37 GMT, John Wunderlich
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> <JoJo> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):
>>>
>>>> Folks:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
>>>> machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
>>>> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
>>>> 200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
>>>>
>>>> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
>>>>
>>>> Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
>>>> solves the problem?
>>>
>> You could try this:
>> Start/run/regedit
>
>
>No, if his BIOS doesn't support the drive (and that's what he says) this
>won't work. Nothing you do in Windows will make visible something the BIOS
>can't see.
Well I did not see that, sorry.
Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

nesredep egrob wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:11:16 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> nesredep egrob wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:53:37 GMT, John Wunderlich
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>>> <JoJo> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):
>>>>
>>>>> Folks:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
>>>>> machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
>>>>> * How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
>>>>> 200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
>>>>> solves the problem?
>>>>
>>> You could try this:
>>> Start/run/regedit
>>
>>
>> No, if his BIOS doesn't support the drive (and that's what he says)
>> this won't work. Nothing you do in Windows will make visible
>> something the BIOS can't see.

> Well I did not see that, sorry.



OK, not a problem. I just wanted to make sure he didn't go off on a wild
goose chase.

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