Hard Drive Size Problem

[John]

I have a serial ATA hard drive which is 160gig.
The BIOS is seeing it as 160gig but when I install XP it
is only seeing it as a 130gig hard drive?
I have run tests on the drive and they all report back as
fine.
Any ideas?

Thanks

John

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

See link below

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk
Drives in Windows XP

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


Alvin

 

[John]

Alvin

Thanks, that seems to be the answer, do you know how I can
take my XP source and make it XP SP1? before I install?

Thanks

David

 

[DL]

If you have a pre SP1 winxp you need to slipstream SP1 into a new winxp
install disk
This is a win2k article, I assume winxp is similar.
http://www.thetechguide.com/articles/slipstream.html
You could, of course install winxp on a small partition, then update to SP1,
prior to creating partition(s) on the remaining free space.

 

[Pete Baker]

Hi John

Just in case, here's a link to a guide to creating a slipstreamed
installation CD for XP

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstream_01.htm

Hope that helps
Pete

 

[John]

All fixed, thanks for all your help every one ;o)

-----Original Message-----
Hi John

Just in case, here's a link to a guide to creating a slipstreamed
installation CD for XP

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstream_01.htm

Hope that helps
Pete
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"DL" suggested partition, then update to
SP1,


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