XPpro only sees half the drive size
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Fygar
, Jan 14 2008 04:40 PM
#1
Posted 14 January 2008 - 04:40 PM
#2
Posted 14 January 2008 - 06:23 PM
Welcome to G2G Fygar
It sounds like you have the old 48 bit LBA problem. Basically, for a computer to recognise a drive larger than 127GB, both the bios and the OS have to support 48 bit LBA translation. I'm assuming is your case, the bios does (however, if you've currently got the drive attached to a different computer, then you may want to check that the bios is recognising the full size). If the bios is fine, then the problem is with XP. Which service pack do you have installed?
It sounds like you have the old 48 bit LBA problem. Basically, for a computer to recognise a drive larger than 127GB, both the bios and the OS have to support 48 bit LBA translation. I'm assuming is your case, the bios does (however, if you've currently got the drive attached to a different computer, then you may want to check that the bios is recognising the full size). If the bios is fine, then the problem is with XP. Which service pack do you have installed?
#3
Posted 14 January 2008 - 08:45 PM
Same computer, I just had an old 20mb drive laying around, so I put it in as the master and installed XPpro. Thank you for the question though, because I checked with windows update and found that it needed SP2. Doing that update now. Hoping that that will make the whole drive usable. It makes sense, because what was on the drive before was XP Home SP2 and it made use of the whole drive.
Thanks for the thought starter!
Thanks for the thought starter!
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