installing 160 hard drive

[timmy crews]

I am trying to install a 160 gig hard drive. in the box
of the hard drive it says that i need to install a new pci
card and connect the hard drive to it rather thatn the
mother board because operating systems such as windows xp
does not recognize any hard drive larger that 134 gigs.
is this true and is there a way around having to install
the new card?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

XP will see the 160GB hard drive when:

1) Your motherboard can do 48Bit LBA -- see motherboard/PC
manufacturer's web site for details/updates
2) Using XP witt SP1 to format the drive
3) Install registry patch to enable 48Bit LBA access in XP

Only XP can see the 160GB natively with the above steps. Other Windows
version, you may still need the card.

Y,

 

[MS70]

I'm having the same problem as you Timmy. XP recognizes
my 160 as a 137 and have sp1 that came on the installation
cd. There is a hot fix you can download on the article
about large hard drives. Updating your bios might help
too and that's what I'm going to do to mine even though my
bios reads my hard drive as 160 full capacity. When I do
those steps, or finish them, hopefully it will work for me
and for you. If not, I've read where Partition Magic
would be helpful.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, MS70 - and Timmy.

For some background on the >137 GB HD transition, search Google for "big
drives", or see these two articles from over a year ago:

Big Drives
http://www.maxtor.com/en/technologies/big_drives/

Live Large with Big Drives
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,519303,00.asp

RC