Large Disk Support

[Guest]

OK I have installed a Seagate 160 GB HD on a Win XP Pro SP2 system.
The drive has been detected, Large disk support is enabled in Windows, my
BIOS supports the drive, but I can't format it at full size, instead it is
partitioned to 120 GB. The remaining 30 GB (149GB in Windows) cannot be
partitioned. I have checked my Motherboard site for any updates just in
case, but there are non for this board. Any Ideas? and how can I check to
see if my BIOS is LBA 428 ready?

Thanks in advance

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Muse.

HOW are you trying to format the HD? Are you using WinXP's Disk Management,
or some other formatting program?

Many users have not yet discovered Disk Management, nearly five years after
it first appeared in Win2K. One quick way to get there is from the Run
prompt: diskmgmt.msc

What does Disk Management say about your new HD? Does it show the full 160
GB? Does it show an existing 120 GB partition? Does it show any
unpartitioned space following the first partition? Can you have DM delete
the existing partition and then create a new one using the whole HDD?

I'm assuming that you are adding this HDD as a secondary to a computer that
has WinXP on another HDD installed as primary master. Or are you trying to
install this HDD as the primary master and install WinXP from scratch on it?

RC

 

[Yves Leclerc]

How to check to see if your motherboard is 48bit LBA ready?

Answer: The 160GB hard drive should be listed @ the max capacity in
the BIOS set-up screen. If not, then the m/b does not support it.

 

[Guest]

Yes I am using Disk Management, it will show the entire drive, it will
partition and format, as the format reaches 100% it will then give me the
"Format was unsuccessful" error.
- The 120 GB Partition is what I partitioned it as in order to use some of
it for now.
- My BIOS is compliant as it does see the entire drive.
- Also, this is a replacement for a defective 160 GB WD drive, for which I
was able
to format and use to full capacity with no problems.

 

[StringFellow Hawk]

Is your WinXP installation CD pre SP1? Did you install WinXP first, then
install SP2? If yes to both questions, this answers your quandary. Pre SP1
XP is not 48-LBA enabled. Try building a WinXP CD with SP2 slipstreamed in
(built into it) - then XP setup will see the full drive size at
partition/format time and you can use the full capacity.

 

[Guest]

hello help pls
bought 2nd hand pc with os is 2k server with 1 wd1200 series 120GB hdd/cd
rom/floppy. hdd has C drive(3.9gb) and new vol E (43.9gb) and F(63.9gb).the
pc is in good working condition

Now i want to install only 2k OR xp and into 3 partitions . pls adv how can
i go about doing this. pls help and many thanks

 

[Guest]

Ok, I have to check my CD, but if I could get a SP1 CD then apply SP2, would
that work? Also...how DO I build an XP CD with SP2 built into it???

 

[StringFellow Hawk]

Google is your friend! Several websites have instructions on how to build
slipstreamed versions of XP with SP1 or SP2.

 

[Guest]

Will this work with a slipstreamed SP1 version?

Google is your friend! Several websites have instructions on how to build
slipstreamed versions of XP with SP1 or SP2.

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StringFellow Hawk

"Dom, Give me Turbos"