Big harddisk support in Win XP

[Geir Svendsen]

I have also the Service pack 1 installed.

Someone told me this have the support for big disk already
enabled. So if i did the LBA tweak this could couse the
problem.

Anyway it shows not more than 128ggb in disk management
with or without the tweak.

>-----Original Message-----
>I want winxp to see all the size of my new Maxtor 200 gb
>plus harddisk.
>
>I have the winxp pro with the plus pack innstalled
>
>I have a:
>1. Big hd
>2. a bios that support big lba disks, I upgradet this and
>now the maxtor dos based format prog see all the 200 gb.
>3. I have done as adviced in ms knowledge base.
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303013
>I modified the registry with the values discribed:
>Value name: EnableBigLba
>Data type: REG_DWORD
>Value data: 0x1
>
>I can still not see more than 128 gb in disk management or
>in partiton magic.
>
>What to do now?
>
>By the way my windows is very slow after the reg tweak.
>
>.
>

[Len Segal]

Geir,

Your motherboard/BIOS combo must also support these huge HDDs. Go to mobo
mfr's Website and update BIOS and drivers for your mobo. See if they advise
you what max HDD size is. If it won't support the 200GB HDD, you might think
about buying a new HDD controller from Promise Technology (assuming that
they make one that will support a HDD this size).

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"Geir Svendsen" > wrote in message
...
> I have also the Service pack 1 installed.
>
> Someone told me this have the support for big disk already
> enabled. So if i did the LBA tweak this could couse the
> problem.
>
> Anyway it shows not more than 128ggb in disk management
> with or without the tweak.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I want winxp to see all the size of my new Maxtor 200 gb
> >plus harddisk.
> >
> >I have the winxp pro with the plus pack innstalled
> >
> >I have a:
> >1. Big hd
> >2. a bios that support big lba disks, I upgradet this and
> >now the maxtor dos based format prog see all the 200 gb.
> >3. I have done as adviced in ms knowledge base.
> >http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303013
> >I modified the registry with the values discribed:
> >Value name: EnableBigLba
> >Data type: REG_DWORD
> >Value data: 0x1
> >
> >I can still not see more than 128 gb in disk management or
> >in partiton magic.
> >
> >What to do now?
> >
> >By the way my windows is very slow after the reg tweak.
> >
> >.
> >


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