Question on my Hard Drive

[Guest]

Help!!!

I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a

INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions

the computer recognizes only 127Gb???

Help!!!


Richard Parco

 

[Glen]

You need to install SP2 (or SP1). The original XP will only recognise 127
GB.

 

[Guest]

Hi there Richard,

Try this:

Check in the Windows Disk Management Utility (Right Click My Computer>Click
Manage>Highlight Disk Management) and see if there is an unused portion of
the hard drive and also check to see if the drive is formatted with FAT32.
If I remember correctly, there is a 127GB size limitation for FAT32 file
systems.

Delete the partitions, and recreate a single partition, formatted with NTFS.

Let me know how it goes!

Best Regards,

~Will

 

[Rctfreak]

Help!!!

I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a

INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions

the computer recognizes only 127Gb???

Help!!!


Richard Parco

One of two things is wrong. You either do not have XP SP2 installed,
or your BIOS on your system can not recognize a drive that large. The
BIOS problem may be solved if there is a BIOS update for your
motherboard.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, i forgot to say that my OS is Win 2000 Advanced Server with SP3.

 

[Guest]

Hi again!

And the 200Gb HDD, i plugged it as additional slve drive. Is there any
problem with that?

And there's no more unused portion on the hard drive when i looked at the
disk management console. The 200Gb was layout as simple, type: dynamic and
file system: NTFS.

 

[Andy]

You have to add EnableBigLba in the registry:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098>
To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:
1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following
registry value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1
4. Quit Registry Editor.

 

[Guest]

Hey, guys!!!

Good news. Andy's suggestions works. Your're the man!!!

Thanks