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Hello to everybody,
i've got problem with an Hdisk my O.S. win 2000 with Service pack 4 don't
recognized all the capaibility of my HDisk. It's an Maxtor 160 GB but the
system recognized only 131 GB(formatted). The Bios instead of my motherboard
recognized all 160 GB. There is something that I can do for solve my
problem?
Thanks in advance
 
Hello to everybody,
i've got problem with an Hdisk my O.S. win 2000 with Service pack 4 don't
recognized all the capaibility of my HDisk. It's an Maxtor 160 GB but the
system recognized only 131 GB(formatted). The Bios instead of my motherboard
recognized all 160 GB. There is something that I can do for solve my
problem?
Thanks in advance
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Is it also reported as 131GB in Disk Management?

Try this,
http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm

If you've already created a parititon that's only 131GB in
size and the remainder of space is unused, you may also need
to delete the partition and create a new one of the
appropriate size. Try the enablebiglbatool first.
 
Win 2000 only recognizes up to 137 GB. You need XP SP1 to recognize 160 GB.
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untrue

Where in the world have you been?
Win2K and XP are essentially the same thing (wink2k lacks
the frills of XP but that's about all), it's not possible
for XP to support it but not 2k with same XP "driver", aka-
patched file.
 
DaveW said:
Win 2000 only recognizes up to 137 GB. You need XP SP1 to recognize 160 GB.
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Windows 2000 with minimum service pack 2. And a tweak in the registry is
needed too.
 
roby said:
Hello to everybody,
i've got problem with an Hdisk my O.S. win 2000 with Service pack 4 don't
recognized all the capaibility of my HDisk. It's an Maxtor 160 GB but the
system recognized only 131 GB(formatted). The Bios instead of my
motherboard
recognized all 160 GB. There is something that I can do for solve my
problem?
Thanks in advance
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Most computers made before about 2003 cannot exceed 137, 438,953,472 bytes
(131,000 MB or 128 GB) on one physical drive. The numbers are odd because
a decimal thousand is 1024.

This limit is in the motherboard's wiring. A recent BIOS upgrade will
report the full size of the drive but the board can't use it all. According
to Thompson & Thompson, PC Hardware In A Nutshell, page 441:

"A BIOS update cannot eliminate the 128 GB ATA/ATAPI-5 limit because older
ATA interface hardware supports only 28-bit LBA. If you require 48-bit LBA
to support drives larger than 128 GB, install a PCI interface card from
Promise, SIIG, or another manufacturer, or replace the motherboard."

This book is occasionally dated in certain things; you should try the link
provided by Kony before giving up, as a software solution may have been
found in the interim.
 
Most computers made before about 2003 cannot exceed 137, 438,953,472 bytes
(131,000 MB or 128 GB) on one physical drive. The numbers are odd because
a decimal thousand is 1024.

This limit is in the motherboard's wiring. A recent BIOS upgrade will
report the full size of the drive but the board can't use it all.
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untrue, it is a logicl problem and that is the whole point
of the bios update
According
to Thompson & Thompson, PC Hardware In A Nutshell, page 441:

"A BIOS update cannot eliminate the 128 GB ATA/ATAPI-5 limit because older
ATA interface hardware supports only 28-bit LBA. If you require 48-bit LBA
to support drives larger than 128 GB, install a PCI interface card from
Promise, SIIG, or another manufacturer, or replace the motherboard."
Click to expand...

The author may fail to understand "why" the hardware
supports only 28-bit then ad-libbed.

This book is occasionally dated in certain things; you should try the link
provided by Kony before giving up, as a software solution may have been
found in the interim.
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If the bios reports the whole capacity (not just a model
name like "WD160JB") it is then left to the other portions
of the system (ie- operating system driver) to support it.

I'd consider leaving that book in a closet, who knows what
else the author has ad-libbed.
 
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