Harddrive

[Johnny]

I recently acuired a 160 gig hard drive but when i
installed it the system is only reading it as 130 gig
any one know a way i can get the system to show all 160
gig of the drive. I am running xp pro with sp1a

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

From: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/132.htm

Thor answers:
Two things. Make sure your BIOS actually supports drives greater than 130GB. It must support 48 bit LBA. Then, you also need an OS that supports 48bit LBA. WinXP SP1 is required for it. If your bios doesn't support it, you can get a controller card from Promise Technologies, that will.
V W Wall adds:
The limit at 128GiB, (~137.4GB), (268435456 sectors), is due to the 28 bit LBA's limitation. The new BIOS updates avoid this limit.

WindowsXP requires SP1, and Windows 2000 requires SP3 with 48 bit LBA address drivers to exceed the 137GB limit.