large disk support

[Guest]

I have a 300 GB hard drive that I use as my primary drive. It has windows
2000 p installed on it and I have SP4. The system only recognizes 100GB of
the hard drive and not the remaining 200GB. I only have the 300GB hard drive
for use as my other drive recently crashed.

Any suggestions on how to get the system to recognize the full capacity of
the hard drive?

 

[David H. Lipman]

48bit LBA in Win2K -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Does the BIOS of the platform the drive is installed on recognize this 300GB 48bit LBA drive
?

--
Dave




| I have a 300 GB hard drive that I use as my primary drive. It has windows
| 2000 p installed on it and I have SP4. The system only recognizes 100GB of
| the hard drive and not the remaining 200GB. I only have the 300GB hard drive
| for use as my other drive recently crashed.
|
| Any suggestions on how to get the system to recognize the full capacity of
| the hard drive?

 

[Jeremy Sun]

You need 3 things:

1) A BIOS that support LBA (you should)
2) SP3 or above (you do)
3) Change a registry setting

For point 3, check here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/

Jeremy

 

[Guest]

Yes, it does.

I went to the computer management screen under administrative tools. The
disk management shows 89 GB defined as the system drive and another 199 GB of
the drive which is unallocated.

Is there a way to "merge" these two spaces together?

 

[David H. Lipman]

Partition Magic -- assuming the OS has the Registry set as per the URL I provided.

--
Dave




| Yes, it does.
|
| I went to the computer management screen under administrative tools. The
| disk management shows 89 GB defined as the system drive and another 199 GB of
| the drive which is unallocated.
|
| Is there a way to "merge" these two spaces together?
|
| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
|
| > 48bit LBA in Win2K -
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
| >
| > Does the BIOS of the platform the drive is installed on recognize this 300GB 48bit LBA
drive
| > ?
| >
| > --
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | I have a 300 GB hard drive that I use as my primary drive. It has windows
| > | 2000 p installed on it and I have SP4. The system only recognizes 100GB of
| > | the hard drive and not the remaining 200GB. I only have the 300GB hard drive
| > | for use as my other drive recently crashed.
| > |
| > | Any suggestions on how to get the system to recognize the full capacity of
| > | the hard drive?
| >
| >
| >