128 Gb barrier iwith SP4 ?

[Adam Smith]

Hello,

I have windows 200K Prof. w/ SP4 patched, I've formatted a 400Gb drive
but alas! I am only getting 127Gb partitions with no unallocated space.
Isn't SP4 supposed to allow LBA Addressing and larger partition sizes?

Adam

 

[Steve Parry]

Hello,

I have windows 200K Prof. w/ SP4 patched, I've formatted a 400Gb drive
but alas! I am only getting 127Gb partitions with no unallocated space.
Isn't SP4 supposed to allow LBA Addressing and larger partition sizes?

Adam

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305098

 

[Adam Smith]

Hi Steve

I should have mentioned that a
160 Gb drive ==> 152.62 Gbs - NFS
300 Gb drive ==> 279.46 Gbs - NFS
but the
400 Gb drive ==> 128.00 Gbs - NFS

all on the same machine, same O/S and all formated under the same
conditions (or apparently so)

Sorry I should have mentioned this earlier

Adam

 

[Steve Parry]

Adam Smith fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Hi Steve

I should have mentioned that a
160 Gb drive ==> 152.62 Gbs - NFS
300 Gb drive ==> 279.46 Gbs - NFS
but the
400 Gb drive ==> 128.00 Gbs - NFS

all on the same machine, same O/S and all formated under the same
conditions (or apparently so)

Sorry I should have mentioned this earlier

Check your BIOS actually supports this size? Have you upgraded your BIOS
to the latest version?


Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP


http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.petitiononline.com/X30WM5/petition.html

 

[Andy]

Run Disk Management and delete all the partitions on the 400 GB drive.
Reboot the computer and run Disk Management again.
What does Disk Management say the capacity of the 400 GB drive is?