200gb drive

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buck

I installed a 200 gb hard drive in my xp machine with a promise controller
card and the card starts with a186gb drive but windows only sees a 111 gb
drive,,,,,ok punt I'm in
 
You need to install Win2K SP4 to get 48bit LBA in Win2K.

Dave



| I installed a 200 gb hard drive in my xp machine with a promise controller
| card and the card starts with a186gb drive but windows only sees a 111 gb
| drive,,,,,ok punt I'm in
|
|
 
You need to update your BIOS.
You need at least SP3.
You need to do some research on 48-bit LBA addressing.
 
This "person" is clueless. He asked the same question in WinXP General !

Dave



|
| You need to update your BIOS.
| You need at least SP3.
| You need to do some research on 48-bit LBA addressing.
 
Isn't that the idea! I have a win2000 and a win xp machine.....BTW I have
updated the bios and I have sp3 on the machine and all the hot fixes Now I
will get sp4. something I didn't know was out yet...
 

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