RE: Re[2]: 160gb drive seen as 127gb - under windows 2k

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That's probably not the problem here...

all fairly modern bios's understand 48lba, it's Win2K &  XP that
natively
don't until you install SP3/4 for 2K or SP1 for XP.

The catch22 is that you can't (unless you've built a slipstreamed CD)
install the SP until you've installed Windows, by which time it's too
late...

So just partition what you can, install Windows, install the SP, then use
Partition Magic etc to pick up the rest of the space...


-----Original Message-----
From: vk [mailto:vk.mail@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 July 2004 10:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re[2]: [ukha_d] 160gb drive seen as 127gb - under windows 2k


This sounds like your IDE controler (motherboard/BIOS) cannot recognise
large IDE disks. This (127GB) is the old IDE limit and no matter what the
size of the disk is the BIOS and subsequently Windows will see it as 127GB.
It will work ok but you are losing (in your case) 33Gb. As you have flashed
the bios on the motherboard with the latest BIOS then it seems that your
motherboard cannot support higher capacities. You have two choices:

1) change the motherboard
2) get a PCI IDE controller (an ATA133 compatible or better) and connect
your drive through that controller.

I hope this helps

Vassilis


At 08:56 23/07/2004, you wrote:
>JN> <http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm>http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
>
>I read this thread and realised I have a 160Gb drive and Windows 2000.
>Sure enough, Windows reports it as 127Gb. I flashed the latest bios so
>the bios should be large drive comptible.
>
>I also visited the url above. They have some downloads: there is a
terrible
>trial version that does not work, but there is also a small, free
program
to
>set the windows registry. I used the latter and windows is now set-up
>correctly. BTW I read the Microsoft knowledge base which tells you how
>to change the registry yourself with regedit, but I could not get it to
>accept the given string.
>
>I also have windows automatically download its updates (is this a good
>or bad thing to have an MS "trojan" on my system?) and it
says it is
>using SP4.
>
>So eveything is set-up as it should be but the drive still shows as
>127Gb. Do I need to reformat the drive to get it to grow to its real
size?
>Or can I do this without data loss, e.g. with Partition Magic or
something
>similar.
>
>Is there a program which converts from 1024 Gb to 1000 Gb and vice
>versa? Foolishly when I had seen it say 127Gb previously, I thought it
>was because of the 1000 vs. 1024 debate!
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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