XP doesn't see full capacity of hard drive

[Guest]

I've installed a new hard drive (200 GB). XP only recognizes 137 of it. I looked on MS' support page and found Knowledge Base article 303013. I have SP1 loaded and verified that latest ATAPI driverof Atapi.sys in your %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder is version 5.1.2600.1135. I still have the same problem.

Has anyone had this same problem and able to resolve it?

Thanks!

 

[Hemlock tree]

You are right at best you should see:

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/92590.html

200,000,000,000 Bytes/1024=195312500 KB 195312500 KB/1024=190734MB

190734 MB/1024=186.2 GB

Your WinXp was updated?
The disk was correctly identified in bios?
The 'largelba' registration entry was correct?
There was an MVP post that suggested a large disk that had been
formatted
prior to any 'largelba' fixes been undertaken could later cause disk
structure problems.
http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread/t-312226.html

see if your latge disk suport is enabled. Ensure latest MS updates
are on.

Lokie
To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:
Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters

On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry
value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1

Quit Registry Editor.

For more details go here.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305098

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I've tried all of those.

I posted the same issue on Western Digital's site to see if they have any answers.