200G Hard Drive

[Guest]

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.

 

[News]

* How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire 200 G

capacity of the hard drive ?

turn it into a republican....

 

[John Wunderlich]

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

 

[AJR]

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

 

[nesredep egrob]

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

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[nesredep egrob]

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

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.