XP - 137gig limitation

[Guest]

I just bought a new hard drive 160gig. Motherboard Bios identifies it
corectly. My XP Home CD is pre-SP1. Setup formated the drive as 131gig. Read
a pile of KB articles about registry ENABLE LBA and possible data corruption.
Updated to SP2. My question: How is adding a line in registry gonna change
the fact that hard drive is allready formated as 131gig.

 

[MsOsWin]

I just bought a new hard drive 160gig. Motherboard Bios identifies it
corectly. My XP Home CD is pre-SP1. Setup formated the drive as
131gig. Read a pile of KB articles about registry ENABLE LBA and
possible data corruption. Updated to SP2. My question: How is adding a
line in registry gonna change the fact that hard drive is allready
formated as 131gig.

i just did similar (160 gb seagate) since i wasn't sure if i'd dual-OS, i partitioned about 120 gb wiht seagate's CD. later i used win
xp setup to partition a space i'd left unallocated

 

[Guest]

So if I partition down the midle I should be able to use the whole disk? For
now is the missing 30gigs just unallocated and retrievable with partition
magic? will Windows make two 80gig partititions ? Wish I understood the
procedure to pre-install the service packs..

 

[Jerry]

The hard drive manufacturers have the necessary software to set up the
drive; check the appropriate web site.

 

[Tommy]

So if I partition down the midle I should be able to use the whole disk? For
now is the missing 30gigs just unallocated and retrievable with partition
magic? will Windows make two 80gig partititions ? Wish I understood the
procedure to pre-install the service packs..

I installed a maxtor 160gb hdd and got this info from maxtor website
and its fine now but I was having problems
Go to the drive makers website there will be info on the support pages
Maxtor has a small file named "big-drive-enabler.exe" so other makers
should have somthing Similar



137GB Capacity Barrier

In order to properly access the full capacity of a hard drive larger
than 137GB, your system must meet the system

requirements described below. Formatting a drive past the 137GB
barrier on a system that does not meet these

requirements will result in data loss.


1) Operating System Solutions

The only current Windows operating systems that natively support the
full capacity of drives larger than 137GB are:

Windows XP Home Service Pack 1 (SP1) (SP2)
Windows XP Professional SP1 SP2
Windows 2000 Professional SP3
Windows 2000 Server SP3



you must install and run the Windows version of MaxBlast from the
MaxBlast CD to properly format and partition the full

capacity of the drive.

 

[MsOsWin]

reading this and looking at teh "facts", i see your semi-unique predicament.

pre-sp1 doesn't support >137gb
and your sp2 (from download, i'm guessing?) isn't a real install CD, so sp2 can't offer to partitoin the space that preSP1 left
unallocated.

maybe ... hmmm... ms will mail sp2 on CD to you? and maybe putting cd into your cd drive, SP2 will offer to partition?
or download sp2 as a "standalone", rather than sp2 via automated winupdate... then maybe the sp2 installation might offer to
partitoin unallocated space??