SATA Drive - Incorrect Size ??

[medieval]

I have a motherboard with SATA connections and a 200Gig SATA hard drive. I have installed windows 2000 but it reports the hard drive as 133Gig in size. I have been told to reinstall windows and press F6 on the keyboard but this only prompts me to enter a floppy disk which I do not have; in any case most new PCs are deemed unworthy of them now, of course. Why I need to enter a floppy ? I don't know.

Is there anyone who knows how to correct the size of the HD please ? thank you.

MOBO : Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
HD : Seagate Barracuda SATA 200GB
VGA : Gigabyte Nvidia 6600GT SLI
MEM : 2x512MB Crucial 3200.

 

[cdogg]

There are two possibilities:

1) Your motherboard's IDE controller and/or BIOS are using 24-bit LBA which is the older standard that is limited to 137GB. Sometimes a BIOS update gets around it. Other times, you need to install a PCI IDE controller card with 48-bit support.

2) Your version of Windows may not support 48-bit LBA. Make sure you are on SP3 or later for Windows 2000.


More info:

http://www.48bitlba.com

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