200 gig Westerndigital Hardrive (XP Pro)

[Joe]

I have a 200 gig western digital JB edition Harddrive. I
know that Windows will only recognize up 137 gigs. Is
there any way that I can get my XP Pro to recognize this
200 gig drive. Is it with a controller card, and if so
which one? I have looked into the Promise Ultra100 Tx2.
Thanks for the help!

 

[Pete Baker]

Joe

Check that your mainboard supports the large (over 137Gb) hard drive.

Make sure you have installed XP Service Pack 1.

If you need more info you should find the steps needed to let XP see the
full drive here

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Hope that helps
Pete