WinXP misreading size of hard drive...

[adamr1001]

Hi,

I am running an ASUS mother board, specifically A7U133, and WinXP.

I just bought a Western Digital 160 GB hard drive, and when I try to initialize and format it, it only recognizes it as having 128 GB capacity. My 2 other 80 GB drives work perfectly. I tried the drive in another machine, and it properly recognized the 160 gigs. So, I updated the BIOS on the first machine from the most recent offering from ASUS (AVU1009), hoping that it would solve the problem - but I've had no luck.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks in advance,
Adam

 

[micker377]

Have you installed SP1? This allows XP to see 48bit addressing to see the full size of the hard drive.

 

[adamr1001]

actually, i havent installed it! if i install SP2, will that also install SP! for me? or do i need to install SP!, and then SP2?


many thanks!!

 

[micker377]

I'd install SP1 - do a complete backup - and then worry about SP2.

 

[smah]

SP2 includes all of the fixes implemented in SP1. If you are planning to install SP2, there is no need to install SP1 first.

 

[linney]

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