200 G Hard drives

[Randy Patterson]

Does anyone know how to get xp to see an entire 200 G Hard
drive without having to partition it into smaller segments.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Does anyone know how to get xp to see an entire 200 G Hard
drive without having to partition it into smaller segments.
.

No xp will see it wholely

 

[Bob Harris]

You need SP-1 and then you need to enable LBA-48 support. You also need a
BIOS that can handle larger disks.

To enable LBA in XP, see the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1115

As for any BIOS limits, contact your BIOS provider (usually motherboard
maker; rarely maker of a PCI add-in card to which hard drive is connected).

 

[mike d]

You also need to initialize the drive in "Disk
Management" - If you can't see the disk at all in "my
comp." but can in "device manager" this is probably your
problem.

You do of course realise that the slack space on a 200GB
partition is going to be tremedous?? I'd seriously
consider splitting it at least 4 ways - but thats just me.

Anyway - Right click on "my comp." and pick "manage" to
get to "Disk Management".