Windows XP install in Very Large Hard Drives

[Peter The Poster]

The solution to this problem is to perform your install
with a Windows XP SP1 CD, as opposed to a Windows XP
install CD.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm having a problem installing Windows XP on a Western
>Digital 180GB hard drive (connected to an Abit KD7
>motherboard). The board recognises the drive fine and
>it's correct size, however Windows XP doesn't during
>install. Instead it reads the drive as being 131GB (and
>infact won't install). I've read on a forum that XP will
>read drives upto 137GB and after that it mentions that
>support for 48bit LBA is required, which it reckons is
>disabled in XP by default. Now I know the drive is ok
>since it has been used as a slave to other drives and
>certainly under Windows XP SP1 the full drive is
>recognised. So have I discovered the fact that yet again,
>like with NT4, Microsoft haven't been forward looking and
>made it very difficult or impossible to install Win XP on
>a very large hard drive?
>
>Certainly all the evidence so far supports that last
>statement. At present I'm trying to configure the drive
>with the updated Win 98SE FDISK which does infact support
>drives upto this size and maybe larger.
>
>It's not a very impressive show is it? Since being an
>NTFS based OS it'll alledgedly support a single partition
>of upto 2 Terrabytes is it?
>
>Microsoft have always failed to properly support large
>IDE hard drives, which is very worying I think, it would
>appear to show a lack of forward thinking, and this being
>all about computers, forward thinking is what you cannot
>afford not to be!
>
>Anyone know of any solutions?
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