Windows 2000 reports Incorrect Hard Drive Size during Installation

[Mark R]

When installing WINDOWS 2000 SP4, Windows reports Hard
disk size as 131070Mb when the Hard Drive is a new SATA
25GB Hard Drive.

BIOS reports hard dive as 250GB. System has latest Bios
dated 03-18-04 latest drives from VIA website installed by
pushing F6 durng startu of windows installation.

Any Ideas

Computer is a Biostar Ideq 200T, Hard Drive is a SATA
Western Digital 250GB Hard Drive

Mark

 

[Dan Seur]

You need to enable W2k "48-bit LBA". Check the Microsoft Knowledge Base
(or Google) for the simple steps involved. Without the 48-bits of
addressing, W2k by default can only see the max drive space it's
reporting to you now. (IIRC there's only a bit of software and a
registry entry change or two required.)