180 GB HARD DRIVE (WIN XP)

[Colin Yardley]

I just added a 180 GB hard drive to my XP machine, but it
is only saying it is 128 GB. The file system is ntfs.
Someone help please!

[Bob Knowlden]

At a guess,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

"How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives
in Windows XP".

If your machine can't natively handle drives larger than 137 GB (perhaps a
BIOS update would help), there may be "overlay" software that came with the
disk that hacks Windows to work with it anyway.

It might be preferable to add a PCI IDE controller card that supports the
large drives. Such cards can be inexpensive - I use a Promise Ultra100TX2
card (although my largest drive is 80 GB), and it supposedly supports LBA48
(with a a recent firmware upgrade for the *card*). Such cards can be had for
$25 US or less. It uses one IRQ.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Spam dodger may be in use. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Colin Yardley" > wrote in message
...
> I just added a 180 GB hard drive to my XP machine, but it
> is only saying it is 128 GB. The file system is ntfs.
> Someone help please!