SUP, my hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250Gb hard drive. i got to install Xp on it and Xp recognizes only 137!! Any ideas on how to make XP recognize all 250 GB? thanx
SUP, i first installed XP SP1 and then downloaded the SP2 update but XP still doesnt recognize all 250Gb. I'm stuck...so i bought a samsung 80Gb hard drive for my master and i'm go'n to use the 250 as a slave. thanks for the help, l8er
Hey Dude I had the same prob when I installed mine,you have to go to the bios and it will ask for the drive capacity and set as required,hope this helps
SUP,i went into the bios and stuff but i couldnt find anything that would let me enable the 48-bit something feature. i dont mind it anymore, i will just have to wait till my new drive comes so i can start installing my games...LOL. l8er
Hi guys, Yeah that's 48-bit LBA addressing and you do not seem to have support for it in your IDE controller (on motherboard). Also, Win2000 and WinXP do not recognize large volumes either - but if your install CD is at least SP1 like yours, or of course SP2, then you're okay. You should probably SlipStream your CD into SP2 version (if you're into these things). But you can check for a BIOS update for your motherboard! Some of the most recent BIOS updates for older mobos will fix just that, adding support for large HD volumes. Regards EDIT: you do have SP1 CD right? If not, no large HD volumes for you during OS install. You can of course then upgrade the install to SP2 and create large storage drives... L8R
SUP, I got a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA-300 hard drive, I couldn’t find anything in my bios. I checked that XP cd I used and it was the original without any service packs, i later downloaded them but without any luck with windows recognizing the correct amount. I don’t really care much any more because I’m getting a new hard drive to use as a master; I just hope Vista won’t have the same capacity recognition issues. Thanks for the input, l8er
SUP, i dont have the 80 gig..yet. i ordered one so i can use it as a master and i will use then 250 i have now as a slave. i think the problem with windows not recognizing all 250 is mabye because i have an old bios, i'm going to update it and see what happens. thanx l8er
when get the 80 gig, load xp with either sp1 or 2 with the 250gig offline. once that is done, online the 250 & will be able to use entire 250gig as 1 drive as i've done that with a 300gig sata for a customer.
No - with an original (non-servicepacked) XP CD, it doesn't matter what your BIOS supports, you will not get large volume support during the OS install. You should immediately update (Slipstream) your WinXP CD to SP2. L8R
