how to format Wester digital 2500JB

[Marc Hutten]

Hi,

I just bought a new harddisk, Its a WD2500JB. It should contain about
250Gbyte.
My windows XP tells me there is only 128Gbyte.

question: what should I do

Marc.

 

[half_pint]

Buy another one?


128+128=256 leaving you 5 spare gigs :O)

 

[John McGaw]

Hi,

I just bought a new harddisk, Its a WD2500JB. It should contain about
250Gbyte.
My windows XP tells me there is only 128Gbyte.

question: what should I do

Marc.

OK. I'll rehash this one more time:

If your BIOS sees the drive as 250gB (or thereabouts) at bootup then you
need to install XP SP1 and make the proper settings in the registry to
enable the use of LBA-48 disk addressing. Most drive vendors provide a
simple utility to do this for you.

If you BIOS does not see the whole drive then you will need to upgrade to
one that will or install a PCI controller that gets around the BIOS
limitations. Again, most drive vendors sell the drives along with the
controllers as kits but you can buy a controller yourself (I believe that
most of the kits contain Promise controllers).

 

[DaveW]

One of two possibilities: either your computer BIOS is too old a version to
recognize harddrives larger than 137GB; AND/OR you are not running Windows
XP Service Pack 1 which is required for XP to recognize harddrives larger
than 137GB.

 

[kony]

Hi,

I just bought a new harddisk, Its a WD2500JB. It should contain about
250Gbyte.
My windows XP tells me there is only 128Gbyte.

question: what should I do

Marc.

Install Service Pack 1, prior to SP1 there was a 128GB limit.