sp2 and large hard drive

[peter]

Does any one knows if the sp2 fixes the large hard drive over 160 gb issue?
(enable 48 bit logical block)

Peter

 

[Rock]

Does any one knows if the sp2 fixes the large hard drive over 160 gb issue?
(enable 48 bit logical block)

Peter

To access hard drive's larger than 137 GB requires a BIOS that supports
48 bit LBA and at least SP1.

 

[peter]

Thanks my mistake. I thought it was an operating system problem. Thank you
for the information.

Peter

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Yes, as long as your motherboard has the capability
to support such a large drive.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Does any one knows if the sp2 fixes the large hard drive over 160 gb issue?
| (enable 48 bit logical block)
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| Peter

 

[Rock]

Thanks my mistake. I thought it was an operating system problem. Thank you
for the information.

Peter

You're welcome.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Does any one knows if the sp2 fixes the large hard drive over 160 gb issue?
(enable 48 bit logical block)

SP2 supports 48 bit LBA (indeed so does SP1). But you still need a hard
disk controller and BIOS that handle the large LBA

Whether the Setup formatting on a new CD of XP with SP2 included will
handle formatting using this I don't know; but trying to make a disk of
such size into a single partition with the system in it is a foolish
course. Make an initial reasonable size partition and then a further
one later in XP Disk Management

 

[Guest]

SP2 supports 48 bit LBA (indeed so does SP1). But you still need a hard
disk controller and BIOS that handle the large LBA

Whether the Setup formatting on a new CD of XP with SP2 included will
handle formatting using this I don't know; but trying to make a disk of
such size into a single partition with the system in it is a foolish
course. Make an initial reasonable size partition and then a further
one later in XP Disk Management

I have the same issue with my Seagate 160 GB drive.. I have SP2 installed
and I am using an ATA 133 serial pci card. I was under the impression that
this would not be an issue when using this? The bios reports 1526 mb so the
pci card must be working properly and I am thinking it may be something easy
I am missing?

 

[Michael]

Seagate has a fix:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/reg_48bit_lba.exe
in their Utilities page http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

Anyways, I installed 2x200GB Seagate SATA drives in Raid0 on ICH5R without
any problems; both XPSP1 and SP2 took the Raid0 as one 400 GB harddrive.
Might be the case that Intel Raid installation utility 'hides' some of the
drive info from XP... not sure. The BIOS does not show the Raid array as a
physical drive connected to IDE - where I have another 40GB UATA 100....
On the other hand, I partitioned the raiddrive in 2x150 GB logical drives
and other smaller ones using XPSP1's formatting and partitioning utilities.
Here's from Seagate site:
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Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 operating systems,
or higher, are required to support ATA disc drives larger than 137GB. The
registry setting EnableBigLBA needs to be set after the proper level service
pack is installed.

If you use the traditional Microsoft Disk Administrator or Disk Management
tools to prepare your drive or you need to check the status of the
EnableBigLBA registry setting, you can use the Ontrack Reg48bitLBA utility
to set or confirm if the setting is enabled.
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Michael