200Gb hard drive not recognized properly in Win XP Pro

[James]

I installed a WD 200Gb HDD as a second drive and XP
recognized it as 127Gb. What's up with this... any fixes?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/grid_alp.php
and read the Frequently Asked Questions.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You need to install SP1 and apply a regustry patch. You can find this on
Microsoft's web site.

Also, make sure that your PC's BIOS can detect the complete 200GBs of the
drive.

Y.

 

[Lorne Smith]

Do you have a motherboard capable of 48bit logical block addressing (LBA)?
You may need to BIOS update if not so check your motherboard manufacturer.
Note: Not all motherboards can be updated, in which case you will need a 3rd
party IDE controller for the drive.

You will also need to install SP1 before you will be able to handle
partitions greater than 127gb...

Lorne

 

[Steve]

Look at this Microsoft article re Logical Block Addressing
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;Q303013

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Assuming that your motherboard can support such a large hard
drive:

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk
Drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303013

Bruce Chambers

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