W2K SP3 only sees 120GB of 180GB disk

[brian]

My win2k (SP3) PC ( P4, latest BIOS, etc ) only sees 120GB
of 180GB disk. Anyone know how to get around this?

thanks!

 

[John John]

Maybe?

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Maybe SP4 might correct this?

John

 

[brian]

thanks John! Will try.

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[Andy]

If you're using Windows Explorer to "see" the disk, it only shows
existing partitions. If you use Disk Management, it shows the entire
disk, existing partitions plus unallocated space.

 

[Guest]

I ran into the same problem but had SP4. It does not add the missing keyword to the registry EnableBigLBA. The Seagate install utility checked the BIOS and I had to update the BIOS but it did not catch the missing LBA entry in Registry. I formatted the 160G (SATA) drive; thought everything was fine; loaded the OS and proceeded to use the drive (after intalling all hotfixes and SP4). When I exceeded the 137G boundary it proceeded to overwrite itself and self destructed, so I learned the hard way.