Installing 250GB SATA on New motherboard using XP-SP1 install shows only 130GB - This a a FAQ but -

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Steve

This question pops up time and again. The KB shows that original versions
of XP didn't have LBA enabled and once you enable LBA all is well.

However, I'm using a XP-SP1 install CD and I'm only showing 131MB of 250GB
brand new MAXTOR " SATA II" drive as the only HD on a factory fresh
motherboard (I have a failed controller on the original). (ASUS P4V800D-X)
whrn XP install try to set up the partitions. The Motherboard see's a 250GB
drive as "Master 3". The BIOS is set to SATA-IDE, that is RAID disabled.


When I built my system originally, this version of XP install (same CD)
quite happily recognised a 160GB IDE Maxtor and partitioned into 120 + 40 no
problems.

What's going on?

TIA

Steve
 
I was under the impression you needed XP with SP2 to format anything larger
than 132GB during a fresh install. Perhaps there is a difference between
SATA & PATA. What happens if you try to use the 160GB drive you mention or
are you keeping that safe for the time being.

Neil
 
I don't want to move the 160G drive because it's THE drive! The SATA drive
suggests LBA is not enabled in XPSP1 installation kit for SATA. I'll try an
XP-SP2 install later today and see what happens and post back.

Google suggest pre August 2002 releases of XP are not LBA enabled, I wonder
if that covers SOME versions of SP1 but not all?

Steve
 
The word in these newsgroups is that SP1 is a must for 48-bit LBA so my
guess is something else is wrong.

Does the BIOS see the full size of the drive?
 
What model number is the drive ?

Steve said:
I don't want to move the 160G drive because it's THE drive! The SATA
drive suggests LBA is not enabled in XPSP1 installation kit for SATA. I'll
try an XP-SP2 install later today and see what happens and post back.

Google suggest pre August 2002 releases of XP are not LBA enabled, I
wonder if that covers SOME versions of SP1 but not all?

Steve
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The model number is: Maxtor 6V250F0 250GB 7200rpm SATAII 16mb Cache

The BIOS shows the model number and the disk size.

Best Regards

Steve
 
DL said:
Assuming you have win installed, by refering to this kb article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp
are the registration entries correct? ie do they show big Lba enabled?
Click to expand...

I just have a system with an unformatted hard drive, I will install the
RAID driver see what happens. I've built a slipstreamed install CD which
will start to get this puzzle solved.

Once this is up and running I will post back what fixed what problem.

Many thanks

Steve
 
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