Is there a hard drive limit?

[G.I.O.]

My buddy purchase a 300 gig HD (D drive) for his W2K system I built him
last year. I fdisk and formatted the drive the way I normally do (on his
system) but he called me to say the drive has only around 160 gigs on
it?

Is there a HD limit with W2K for a single partition? I did not get any
errors so where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

G.I.O. fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

My buddy purchase a 300 gig HD (D drive) for his W2K system I built
him last year. I fdisk and formatted the drive the way I normally do
(on his system) but he called me to say the drive has only around 160
gigs on it?

Is there a HD limit with W2K for a single partition? I did not get
any errors so where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/


--
Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP


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[nesredep egrob]

My buddy purchase a 300 gig HD (D drive) for his W2K system I built him
last year. I fdisk and formatted the drive the way I normally do (on his
system) but he called me to say the drive has only around 160 gigs on
it?

Is there a HD limit with W2K for a single partition? I did not get any
errors so where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

Start/run/regedit
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

 

[G.I.O.]

Thanks for the input.

First off, I have SP4 installed on the system in question and the drive we
are concerned with is the D drive being used for large video files. It is on
a pull-out drawer so other drives can be swopped as needed for specific jobs.
I should also state that I used a Win98 OSR2.1 boot disk for the fdisk LBA
setup and then did the format from inside W2K using the largest sector size
available (again for video file use).

Questions:

After I make the registry change will the 300gig drive I have already
installed read at correct capacity or must I reformat that drive?

Is there any way of determining if the bios in this Dell system is 48-bit
compatible or will that be evident after the reg change... i.e. I will see
the correct size or I won't?

Thanks!

 

[nesredep egrob]

Thanks for the input.

First off, I have SP4 installed on the system in question and the drive we
are concerned with is the D drive being used for large video files. It is on
a pull-out drawer so other drives can be swopped as needed for specific jobs.
I should also state that I used a Win98 OSR2.1 boot disk for the fdisk LBA
setup and then did the format from inside W2K using the largest sector size
available (again for video file use).

Questions:

After I make the registry change will the 300gig drive I have already
installed read at correct capacity or must I reformat that drive?

Is there any way of determining if the bios in this Dell system is 48-bit
compatible or will that be evident after the reg change... i.e. I will see
the correct size or I won't?

Thanks!

the registry change will enable the computer to see drives bigger than 160GB,
however I am sure if you swap drives you have to look at bios to make sure it
sees the new drive.

Borge