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sata wrong disk size
Name: buta Date: August 14, 2005 at 23:36:51 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: 1G
Comment:
I just bought a Maxtor sata 250G harddisk, and tried to install windows xp, but showed wrong disk size. Widows xp installation says only 130G rather than 250G. Do I have to do some tweaks to get correct disk size in sata harddisk?
Name: buta Date: August 15, 2005 at 01:15:45 Pacific
Reply:
I did install windows xp without loading any sata driver, but window still recognizes 250G harddisk as 130G. I've tried to search sata driver ,but no luck. My mobo is ECS RS-400A. Any help would be appreciated.
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Response Number 2
Name: Rick McNabb Date: August 15, 2005 at 10:22:57 Pacific
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There was a 137 GB limit in the original release of XP. In service pack 1 Microsoft added support for 48-bit LBA which extends this limit to 144 Petabytes. As long as you have SP1 installed (or slipstreamed into your XP install disc) and your BIOS supports drives of that size you shouldn't have any problems.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: August 15, 2005 at 10:50:43 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure your bios recognizes the correct size of the drive. If not, checkout www.48bitlba.com.
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Response Number 4
Name: buta Date: August 15, 2005 at 11:10:37 Pacific
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I have installed SP2, but windows still recognize the drive as 130GB. However Bios recognize it as 250GB correctly. Is there anything I can do?
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Response Number 5
Name: Rick McNabb Date: August 15, 2005 at 15:47:00 Pacific
Reply:
You do not have an install disk with Windows XP SP2 on it do you??
You are looking at it in Disk Management??
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Response Number 6
Name: buta Date: August 15, 2005 at 20:56:29 Pacific
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I have installed xp without service pack. Then I installed sp2. It seems windows recoginzed the harddrive as IDE(?) when I installed windows.
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Response Number 7
Name: buta Date: August 15, 2005 at 21:09:01 Pacific
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Windows did recognized the correct harddrive size, but the rest of harddrive space wasn't allocated yet. I just needed to allocate it. I've wasted so many hours for this!
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