support for 250G hard drive

[TomK]

Does XP support 250g hard drives?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Yes, Windows XP does support 250GB hard drives when SP1 is installed.
The question is, does your "motherboard" support a 250GB hard drive?

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&Product=winxp

 

[TomK]

Yes, I believe it does. The proper model and size show up
in the BIOS. It's an Athlon 2600 chip and m-bd. I guess
my version of XP is older and doesn't support this size.
I've ordered a new version from the net. I hope that will
work. Thx for the reply.

-----Original Message-----
Yes, Windows XP does support 250GB hard drives when SP1 is installed.
The question is, does your "motherboard" support a 250GB hard drive?

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support

for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Your older version does not contain SP1. I do believe that if you were to
install SP1, the full capacity of the hard drive should be available.

Y.

 

[David B.]

Just because BIOS shows the drive properly does not mean it supports it. There is no need to order a new version of XP as there is
no newer version, all you need to do is install SP1 from Windows Update