Your answer WAS misleading and Blake never mentioned anything about flashing the
BIOS.
Blake was correct in his statement. See this article for more clarification:
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
Pay attention to the section that reads:
Your computer must meet the following requirements to use 48-bit LBA ATAPI
support: - 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS.
- 137-GB hard disk or larger.
- You must have Windows XP SP1 installed.
And where to you ever get the "Rule of 138" phrase from? Google only finds
legal/tax citations for this phrase.
You're also in need of a good spellchecker.
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Hope this helps,
Newt
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in message | Ken, If you cannot give the requirement's and only re-direct. how did you
| become MVP? I am also a Microsoft Partner.Don't need it affixed to my name. I
| try to teach; and teacher's explain the situations at hand. Could care less
| about opinion's [Only Facts.] Respectfully: Woz P.S. Ray's Bios didn't need
| to be re-flashed. This a Myth. and a (30%-90%), crash on older Systems.
|
| "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
|
| > Woz Office:SDK_BETA O/S wrote:
| >
| > > Ken. If your O/S is WinXP Home or Pro, with sp1 or sp2, You're Bios
| > > will reconize the 48 bit LBA. No need to be concerned with the Rule
| > > of 138. Respectfully: Woz
| >
| >
| > Well first, I didn't say anything about what was required for 48-bit LBA. I
| > just pointed out that if he was already seeing the full size of the drive,
| > all was well, and there was nothing more that needed to be done.
| >
| > But nevertheless, what you say above is *not* correct. You need *two* things
| > to support a drive that large--just SP1 or SP2 is not sufficient:
| >
| > 1. A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that supports 48-bit LBA (or
| > alternatively, an add-in controller card that does).
| >
| > 2. At least SP1 of Windows XP.
| >
| > --
| > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
| > Please reply to the newsgroup
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
| > >
| > >> Ray wrote:
| > >>
| > >>> Hello, hope any of you guys can help me with this because I can't
| > >>> figure it out on my own.
| > >>>
| > >>> My Hard Drive has a total capacity of 189.91GB or 200GB but I've
| > >>> divided it into two partitions:
| > >>> The Primary partition is the smallest and has 76GB.
| > >>> The Secondary partition is the biggest and has 113GB.
| > >>>
| > >>> This Hard Drive is connected to the motherboard using an IDE cable
| > >>> (P-ATA interface) and is set as Master.
| > >>>
| > >>> So the question is:
| > >>> Do I still need to enable "48-bit LBA" when none of my partitions
| > >>> exceed the old "28-bit LBA" limitation of 128/137GB?
| > >>> And If I do need to enable it, how do I enable it?
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> No, it's already enabled. If it weren't, you wouldn't have been able
| > >> to see more than 137GB and wouldn't have been able to create
| > >> partitions totalling more than that.
| > >>
| > >> --
| > >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
| > >> Please reply to the newsgroup
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>> I'm using Windows XP Professional with SP2 and the latest security
| > >>> patches. I've successfully flashed my BIOS so it can now support
| > >>> drives larger than 128/137GB.
| > >>>
| > >>> Please help!
| >
| >
| >
