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I have a wd320 gb hard drive and in Windows 2000 it's only seeing around 120
gbs of it. Is there any reason why this would be happening? I'm eventually
wanting to have 4 of these in the system and would like them all working all
at 100% efficiency obviously. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hi,

happy new year! You should check whether your BIOS on your Board supports
that much HD Space, if not, check the manufacturers site for updates or
sometimes
you must buy a new board when there is no supporting update available.

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I have a wd320 gb hard drive and in Windows 2000 it's only seeing around 120
gbs of it. Is there any reason why this would be happening?
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The controller on your MB.

Check for a BIOS update.

Or buy an add-on IDE controller, which is cheap,
and usually faster than what's on your MB.




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I have a wd320 gb hard drive and in Windows 2000 it's only seeing around 120
gbs of it. Is there any reason why this would be happening? I'm eventually
wanting to have 4 of these in the system and would like them all working all
at 100% efficiency obviously. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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If your BIOS supports the drive check this area:

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

Or as everyone else is suggesting, check your BIOS updates or get an add
on controller.........If part of the 320 is your OS drive than get a
card that will assign disk order properly........Usually the Sil's do
nicely in that area...............Promise cards assign "after" the first
two IDE connectors on the MB.....If there are no HD's connected to the
board and only opticals I'm sure it will assign as Disk0 first........I
only use promises as extended IDE's.........

What was the size of your old drive? Leave that on for the OS and use
the 320's for storage or whatever..........connected to a promise.....

Just a thought.........
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The 320 is my primary drive. I'm waiting on my next 320 until i get these
setup. the primary partition that it sees is 76.4 GB and the secondary (T:\)
is around 46.8 GB. I'm fine with there being partitions as long as i can get
my space. That's all i'm caring right now. I'll go ahead and try that when
I get home as i have some more repairs to do on my girlfriends pc anyway.

Thanks for the info though all of you.
 
I have a wd320 gb hard drive and in Windows 2000 it's only seeing around 120
gbs of it. Is there any reason why this would be happening? I'm eventually
wanting to have 4 of these in the system and would like them all working all
at 100% efficiency obviously. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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I think you will find this ti be the best way - I have never had any complaints
and have dealt with dozens in this way which is also recommended by MS

Start/run/regedit
(If unsure backup registry)
select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
right click for new
Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
set value to 1
end regedit
reboot

For your information, my stats are:
Win 2000, Pentium IV 3 Ghz
1 Gb memory,ADSL
200+200GB of disc+200GB USB WD ,Optio S, Canon S2, Sony 355E
Burners 2xDVD (Pioneer and Sony make)
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After the install you can apply the reghack in this article.

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098


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|I have a wd320 gb hard drive and in Windows 2000 it's only seeing around
120
| gbs of it. Is there any reason why this would be happening? I'm
eventually
| wanting to have 4 of these in the system and would like them all working
all
| at 100% efficiency obviously. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
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