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500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

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Name: RoninNYC
Date: September 9, 2006 at 11:12:10 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb
OS: win xp SP2
CPU/Ram: amd 3000+/1024

Comment:

Hey all I have a 500gb SATA drive that shows up as 127gb. Every where I look says I need to plug it into an ATA controller card. Is this true? Wouldnt this limit the use of the drive? I didnt know that that was the fix for SATA drives as well, I thought it was only for IDE (correct me if Im wrong) I have an ABIT KN8 Ultra 1.1 mobo, and i installed windows xp SP2

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Response Number 1

Name: ham30
Date: September 9, 2006 at 11:31:25 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

Reply: (edit)

It's a bios limitation (on older motherboards) and goes for both types of drives.
If the bios only recognizes it as 127gb, there 'might' be an upgrade for it.
A PCI controller card with 48 bit LBA compatibility will fix the problem. It will not limit the use of the drive.
Note that XP requires SP1 (at least) to recognize drives over 127gb.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!

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Response Number 2

Name: RoninNYC
Date: September 9, 2006 at 11:33:59 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

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I installed SP2. I checked the ABIT site and they said all boards made after 2003 have the ability to view drives 160gb and over. this board has PCI X and stuff on it and I got it on Thursday so I know its past 2003. Its not an older board.

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Response Number 3

Name: ham30
Date: September 9, 2006 at 12:29:08 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

Reply: (edit)

Does the bios see the full drive?
Did you install SP2 'after' the drive was installed? If so, go to Disk Management > Action > Rescan disks and see if it will pick up the correct size.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!

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Response Number 4

Name: RoninNYC
Date: September 9, 2006 at 12:32:10 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

Reply: (edit)

That did the trick ham30, thanks a lot.

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Response Number 5

Name: ham30
Date: September 9, 2006 at 12:47:53 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

Reply: (edit)

Happy to help, Ron. Good work!
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!

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DVD drive shows up as CD in XP Data Recovery Sata shows up as removable drive My 1.8ghz is showing up as 1.15ghz 500 gig HD shown as 130 gig	Slave Hard Drive doesn't show up Hard Drive Not Showing up in XP SATA drive not showing up HDD Not Showing up Correctly IDE drives, not showing up.

Response Number 6

Name: Cobra_R
Date: September 10, 2006 at 09:36:26 Pacific
Subject: 500 gb harddrive shows up as 127 gb

Reply: (edit)

Oh you got to love windows. :)~ Hopefully you won't have to do that in Vista.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
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