Any suggestions appreciated I have a ECS 915P-A2 Motherboard, 2GB DDR RAM, P4 3.2 GHZ CPU and AMI BIOS Problem: System will only show 127GB capacity limit for my 1 Terabyte HDD. I have tried swapping to a 250GB HDD and a 500GB HDD seperately and I am still limited to 127GB's. I emailed ECSUSA for support on updating the BIOS since they only have 2 versions for my board and the update description says nothing about Hard Drive capacity. They copy pasted the BIOS page that I had already read and totally ignored my root question. Does anyone have any suggestions?? Thanks in advance.
what OS are you running, and what service pack of the OS is installed? if you have XP with SP1 or earlier, you have to install a update for windows to recognize drives over 127 GB
I had the same problem installing Windows XP home with SP1. Upgraded to SP2 install disk then the entire 500 Gbyte drive was able to format.
xp without any service pack causes that problem. use that 127gig partition for windows & make the rest as a new partition for games or whatever.
Thanks alot guys for your help. I am using WIN XP Professional V. 2002 with SP3 installed. Where at microsoft.com could I find a patch in order for the OS to recognize the full capacity of my hard drive? Again..THANK YOU for all your help.
is sp3 part of the disk or an add-on? check check ecs site to see if there is a bios update for your motherboard.
Try Maxtor big drive enabler. It works on all drives. http://www.freewarefiles.com/Maxtor-Big-Drive-Enabler_program_18921.html
THANKS AGAIN GUYS!! I will try that MAXTOR Drive Enabler for sure. I will let you know what happens. THANKS AGAIN TO YOU ALL !
