Seagate 200Gb recognised under XP home

[Carey]

Can any one tell me if XP Home recognises a 200Gb drive as my 2000pro does
not. It only sees about 137Gb

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[John McGaw]

Can any one tell me if XP Home recognises a 200Gb drive as my 2000pro does
not. It only sees about 137Gb

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It certainly should if you have installed SP1 and have the proper registry
settings. But the default settings will not work in many cases. Check
Seagate's website and you will probably find instructions or a small utility
program to make the required registry settings. Maxtor and others have them
and it seems reasonable that Seagate would also.
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[Pivert]

Windows 2000 with SP3 / SP4 installed should be able to use hard disks
greater than 137 GB.
See here :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098&Product=win2000
Phil

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Can any one tell me if XP Home recognises a 200Gb drive as my 2000pro
does not. It only sees about 137Gb

You need to things to support a drive over 137GB:

1. XP Service Pack 1 installed

2. 48 bit LBA support, either on the motherboard, or on a
separate controller card.

You apparently don't have at least one of these.

 

[Plato]

Can any one tell me if XP Home recognises a 200Gb drive as my 2000pro does
not. It only sees about 137Gb

It does with SP1 installed, but your bios has to see it properly as
well. If not, a bios upgrade _may_ work assuming the upgrade addresses
hard drive issues like that.

 

[Jerry]

And after installing SP1 you still must turn on 48-bit LBA.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can any one tell me if XP Home recognises a 200Gb drive as my 2000pro does
not. It only sees about 137Gb

At 128GB (binary base - 137 decimal) it becomes necessary to use '48 bit
LBA' to refer to the sectors on the disk; the previous 28 bits runs out
of capacity. To do this you need

A suitable disk (you have that)

A motherboard controller and BIOS that will support 48 Bit

Windows XP with SP1

If you have SP1 then the problem is probably the second point - a BIOS
upgrade might fix that; if not you will need to buy a plug in controller
card (eg Promise do one)