B Bob Knowlden Oct 25, 2003 #2 First, your mainboard must support LBA48 addressing. (This may require a BIOS update, or the use of a third-party IDE controller card., as made by Promise, SIIG, etc.) Also: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp "How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP" Good luck. Bob Knowlden Address altered to avoid spam. replace nkbob with bobkn.
First, your mainboard must support LBA48 addressing. (This may require a BIOS update, or the use of a third-party IDE controller card., as made by Promise, SIIG, etc.) Also: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp "How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP" Good luck. Bob Knowlden Address altered to avoid spam. replace nkbob with bobkn.