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400GB down to 137GB after OS repair

 
 
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      7th Dec 2005
Hello out there,
I use a 60Gb harddisk as OS-disk (XP SP2) and a 400GB HD (ATA) as secondary
disk for data...
It worked fine for months. As XP had some problems (didn't one shutdown
without hanging etc.) I decided to repair the installation. Hm!!!
So I put in a bootable XP-SP2 CD, boot from it, and started to repair the
windows installation. Everything ran fine and in the end, when I restarted
the PC, the problems were gone. But: My second harddisk shows no more than
137GB. So I did a reinstall of SP2, inspected aspi.sys etc. etc.
But there is no chance.
Do you have any ideas about that?
Thks in advance, Bernd

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      7th Dec 2005
Add EnableBigLba registry value with a setting of 1 in the following
registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters


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"Bernd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ABD49B95-3D34-4F7A-AEDA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello out there,
> I use a 60Gb harddisk as OS-disk (XP SP2) and a 400GB HD (ATA) as
> secondary
> disk for data...
> It worked fine for months. As XP had some problems (didn't one shutdown
> without hanging etc.) I decided to repair the installation. Hm!!!
> So I put in a bootable XP-SP2 CD, boot from it, and started to repair the
> windows installation. Everything ran fine and in the end, when I restarted
> the PC, the problems were gone. But: My second harddisk shows no more than
> 137GB. So I did a reinstall of SP2, inspected aspi.sys etc. etc.
> But there is no chance.
> Do you have any ideas about that?
> Thks in advance, Bernd
>
> seemed to



 
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      8th Dec 2005
To Rodney:
Thks for answering.
I've already entered this registry key, but without any success. The type of
the key is DWORD, isn't it??
Bernd

"Rodney Buike [MVP - Directory Services]" wrote:

> Add EnableBigLba registry value with a setting of 1 in the following
> registry subkey:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters
>
>
> --
> Rodney Buike
> MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
>
> http://thelazyadmin.com
>
> *** This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. ***
>
>
> "Bernd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ABD49B95-3D34-4F7A-AEDA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello out there,
> > I use a 60Gb harddisk as OS-disk (XP SP2) and a 400GB HD (ATA) as
> > secondary
> > disk for data...
> > It worked fine for months. As XP had some problems (didn't one shutdown
> > without hanging etc.) I decided to repair the installation. Hm!!!
> > So I put in a bootable XP-SP2 CD, boot from it, and started to repair the
> > windows installation. Everything ran fine and in the end, when I restarted
> > the PC, the problems were gone. But: My second harddisk shows no more than
> > 137GB. So I did a reinstall of SP2, inspected aspi.sys etc. etc.
> > But there is no chance.
> > Do you have any ideas about that?
> > Thks in advance, Bernd
> >
> > seemed to

>
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