i installed a 160gb hardrive and my system recognized 137
gb in the bios , so i installed windows xp then the
service pack one.. now in my disk manager it has 127gb
partitioned, and has 24gb unallocated..

what do i do with the 24 unalocated? i right clicked on
the 24 unallocated and then picked new partition but when
i get to the next prompt it says i have two choices to
pick either a primary partition or an extended partion.
what one do i pick i dont know the difference?


is there any trick or tweak to get the partition to see
all the gigabites instead of it spliting them into two?
can i trick the bios to see the whole thing or set my
bios in my drive options and set the thing to the whole
160gb?

there are two articles in microsoft knowledge base i
noticed one is...
''How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support
for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
This article was previously published under Q303013'' do
i do this process and do i do it before or after i do the
thing in the disk management .


i read another article "The ATAPI driver for Windows XP
Service Pack 1 (SP1) does not use 48-bit Logical Block
Addressing (LBA) when it writes memory dump files or
hibernation files. Additionally, the flush cache command
is not issued to a large hard disk that has 48-bit LBA
enabled when Windows XP enters standby or hibernation''
This article was previously published under Q331958 .

do i need to put in the fix for that as well?

thanks

To set it as one partition you need to enable the 48 bit LBA.

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"sam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> i installed a 160gb hardrive and my system recognized 137
> gb in the bios , so i installed windows xp then the
> service pack one.. now in my disk manager it has 127gb
> partitioned, and has 24gb unallocated..
>
> what do i do with the 24 unalocated? i right clicked on
> the 24 unallocated and then picked new partition but when
> i get to the next prompt it says i have two choices to
> pick either a primary partition or an extended partion.
> what one do i pick i dont know the difference?
>
>
> is there any trick or tweak to get the partition to see
> all the gigabites instead of it spliting them into two?
> can i trick the bios to see the whole thing or set my
> bios in my drive options and set the thing to the whole
> 160gb?
>
> there are two articles in microsoft knowledge base i
> noticed one is...
> ''How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support
> for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
> This article was previously published under Q303013'' do
> i do this process and do i do it before or after i do the
> thing in the disk management .
>
>
> i read another article "The ATAPI driver for Windows XP
> Service Pack 1 (SP1) does not use 48-bit Logical Block
> Addressing (LBA) when it writes memory dump files or
> hibernation files. Additionally, the flush cache command
> is not issued to a large hard disk that has 48-bit LBA
> enabled when Windows XP enters standby or hibernation''
> This article was previously published under Q331958 .
>
> do i need to put in the fix for that as well?
>
> thanks
>
>

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:41:47 -0700, sam wrote:

>
> i installed a 160gb hardrive and my system recognized 137
> gb in the bios , so i installed windows xp then the
> service pack one.. now in my disk manager it has 127gb
> partitioned, and has 24gb unallocated..
>
> what do i do with the 24 unalocated? i right clicked on
> the 24 unallocated and then picked new partition but when
> i get to the next prompt it says i have two choices to
> pick either a primary partition or an extended partion.
> what one do i pick i dont know the difference?
>
>
> is there any trick or tweak to get the partition to see
> all the gigabites instead of it spliting them into two?
> can i trick the bios to see the whole thing or set my
> bios in my drive options and set the thing to the whole
> 160gb?
>
> there are two articles in microsoft knowledge base i
> noticed one is...
> ''How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support
> for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
> This article was previously published under Q303013'' do
> i do this process and do i do it before or after i do the
> thing in the disk management .
>
>
> i read another article "The ATAPI driver for Windows XP
> Service Pack 1 (SP1) does not use 48-bit Logical Block
> Addressing (LBA) when it writes memory dump files or
> hibernation files. Additionally, the flush cache command
> is not issued to a large hard disk that has 48-bit LBA
> enabled when Windows XP enters standby or hibernation''
> This article was previously published under Q331958 .
>
> do i need to put in the fix for that as well?
>
> thanks

Limitations aren't always due to the operating system and what service pack
you have installed. Check the documentation for your motherboard. What is
the largest hard drive the BIOS can handle.
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Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User