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[sypher9878]

I recently bought a WD 180gb hard drive. model:wd1800jb I instaled it and booted up. My bios read the drive fine. Then when xp pro booted i went into the disk management utility to partition and format it but the drive was only being shown as 128gb. Which i now know is due to the 128bit problem that all the old OS had. I thought xp did away with that along with ntfs(no limitations). Well if you have any advice it would be appreciated.

BTW. i am running an asus a7n8x deluxe MB with an athlon xp2600+ and 1gb corsair ram in a duel channel(pc 3520).

 

[wolluf]

XP does not have a 128GB limitation (supports terabytes) - so it must be something else. Are you sure the bios is seeing the disk as 180GB (because 128GB IS a known bios limitation)?

Have you flashed your mobo with latest bios?

Are there any updated IDE drivers available for your mobo?

Jumpers on the drive definitely set correctly?

 

[sypher9878]

The jumpers are set to cable select because i have 2 drives on one cable(80GB MAXTOR). My bios reads the drive at 180 during POST and when i enter the bios itself so i haven't really considered the bios as being the problem. Someone told me that i need to hook it into a ultra133 pci card. I thought those were to just enable the 133speeds if your motherboard didnt support it. Well if you have any ideas.........

 

[wolluf]

sypher9878,

Just found this registry tweak on another site (don't know if it works - haven't got a large enough drive to try it on!)

run regedit - go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters

Add a new entry: EnableBigLba (type DWORD). Set value to 1.

After a restart the non removable disk over 128GB in Windows 2000/XP is recognized.

 

[sypher9878]

That solved the problem. Thank you very much.