Hello there I have just starting an upgrade and bought a 200gb HDD. I have installed win2000 and allready by the installation I noticed that the system did not see the whole HDD. Nevertheless I formated to 100GB NTFS and installed W2K. Now I would like to format the rest but Partition Magic can also not see(except 30GB unpartioned space till 128gb) Could anyone help me regarding this Thanks Luregn

http://www.48bitlba.com/

you may need to flash your bios to get it to see the entire drive. older boards dont always see all of larger/newer drives.

pffffffff people getting 200GB but dont know how to use it or install SP's what is this world going to i bet you also got 9999k virusses. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B305098

ooglenz1 - of course, your link states you must have a BIOS that supports 48-bit LBA addressing. Rule #1 Good computers don't go down. Rule #2 There is no such thing as a good computer.

With win2000 you'll need SP4 to see drives larger than 137 gb, Other than that , you should probably try the drives software allow their software to format and partition the drive and then install and upgrade your windows ... from there you would then be able to ( after SP4 ) access the drive from disk management , in the computer console window. , and or the system itself and choose to , format or change the drives properties. Or slipstream your win2000 disk with SP4 and go from there,,, If you need the link for info on slipstreaming , well will have to look around again and find It ,,, I do know there is autopatcher,,, And that's another link I have to find.... MSI 845e mb 768 mb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

Thanks guys. Firstly to the person who was behaving a slight bit over the top(ooglenz1). I try to get help because I am stuck and my (computer)knowledge is obviously not quite up with yours!! Thanks to all the rest of you! Firstly I had to check if it was possible in the BIOS and then change the registry and now it works beautifully! Thank you all Luregn