48 bit LBA Support

O

Omega99

Is there any possibility to disable
48 bit LBA Support in Windows XP Professional.
It is easy in Windows 2000 Professional.
 
J

John John - MVP

On Windows XP the 48 Bit LBA support is built in to the Atapi.sys
driver, you would have to replace the driver with a pre-SP1 version.
If I may ask, why on earth do you want to do this?

John
 
S

smlunatick

On Windows XP the 48 Bit LBA support is built in to the Atapi.sys
driver, you  would have to replace the driver with a pre-SP1 version.
If I may ask, why on earth do you want to do this?

John
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Possibly to "limit" the size of a large hard drive?? Several IDE
hard drives have / had a jumper to limit the total capacity, which is
the better way of setting a limit.
 
A

almostbob

want to know why too
the 48bit lba is backwards compatible with all prior drivers,
have a bunch of drives under data recovery, even some mfm 20MB drives from
1982
its a harsh way to reduce disk capacity

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On Windows XP the 48 Bit LBA support is built in to the Atapi.sys
driver, you would have to replace the driver with a pre-SP1 version.
If I may ask, why on earth do you want to do this?

John
Click to expand...

Possibly to "limit" the size of a large hard drive?? Several IDE
hard drives have / had a jumper to limit the total capacity, which is
the better way of setting a limit.
 

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