Question on my Hard Drive

[Richard Parco]

Help!!!

I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a

INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions

the computer recognizes only 127Gb???

Help!!!


Richard Parco

[Glen]

You need to install SP2 (or SP1). The original XP will only recognise 127
GB.

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"Richard Parco" > wrote in message
...
>
> Help!!!
>
> I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
>
> INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
> Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
> Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
>
> the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
>
> Help!!!
>
>
> Richard Parco

[William Anderson]

Hi there Richard,

Try this:

Check in the Windows Disk Management Utility (Right Click My Computer>Click
Manage>Highlight Disk Management) and see if there is an unused portion of
the hard drive and also check to see if the drive is formatted with FAT32.
If I remember correctly, there is a 127GB size limitation for FAT32 file
systems.

Delete the partitions, and recreate a single partition, formatted with NTFS.

Let me know how it goes!

Best Regards,

~Will

"Richard Parco" wrote:

>
> Help!!!
>
> I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
>
> INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
> Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
> Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
>
> the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
>
> Help!!!
>
>
> Richard Parco

[Rctfreak]

On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:19:01 -0700, Richard Parco
> wrote:

>
>Help!!!
>
>I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
>
>INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
>Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
>Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
>
>the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
>
>Help!!!
>
>
>Richard Parco


One of two things is wrong. You either do not have XP SP2 installed,
or your BIOS on your system can not recognize a drive that large. The
BIOS problem may be solved if there is a BIOS update for your
motherboard.

[Richard Parco]

Sorry, i forgot to say that my OS is Win 2000 Advanced Server with SP3.

"Rctfreak" wrote:

> On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:19:01 -0700, Richard Parco
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >Help!!!
> >
> >I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
> >
> >INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
> >Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
> >Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
> >
> >the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
> >
> >Help!!!
> >
> >
> >Richard Parco
>
>
> One of two things is wrong. You either do not have XP SP2 installed,
> or your BIOS on your system can not recognize a drive that large. The
> BIOS problem may be solved if there is a BIOS update for your
> motherboard.
>
>

[Richard Parco]

Hi again!

And the 200Gb HDD, i plugged it as additional slve drive. Is there any
problem with that?

And there's no more unused portion on the hard drive when i looked at the
disk management console. The 200Gb was layout as simple, type: dynamic and
file system: NTFS.



"Rctfreak" wrote:

> On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:19:01 -0700, Richard Parco
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >Help!!!
> >
> >I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
> >
> >INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
> >Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
> >Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
> >
> >the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
> >
> >Help!!!
> >
> >
> >Richard Parco
>
>
> One of two things is wrong. You either do not have XP SP2 installed,
> or your BIOS on your system can not recognize a drive that large. The
> BIOS problem may be solved if there is a BIOS update for your
> motherboard.
>
>

[Andy]

You have to add EnableBigLba in the registry:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098>
To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:
1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Atapi\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following
registry value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1
4. Quit Registry Editor.

On Tue, 2 May 2006 19:07:01 -0700, Richard Parco
> wrote:

>Sorry, i forgot to say that my OS is Win 2000 Advanced Server with SP3.
>
>"Rctfreak" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:19:01 -0700, Richard Parco
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Help!!!
>> >
>> >I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
>> >
>> >INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
>> >Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
>> >Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
>> >
>> >the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
>> >
>> >Help!!!
>> >
>> >
>> >Richard Parco
>>
>>
>> One of two things is wrong. You either do not have XP SP2 installed,
>> or your BIOS on your system can not recognize a drive that large. The
>> BIOS problem may be solved if there is a BIOS update for your
>> motherboard.
>>
>>

[Richard Parco]

Hey, guys!!!

Good news. Andy's suggestions works. Your're the man!!!

Thanks


"Richard Parco" wrote:

> Hi again!
>
> And the 200Gb HDD, i plugged it as additional slve drive. Is there any
> problem with that?
>
> And there's no more unused portion on the hard drive when i looked at the
> disk management console. The 200Gb was layout as simple, type: dynamic and
> file system: NTFS.
>
>
>
> "Rctfreak" wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:19:01 -0700, Richard Parco
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Help!!!
> > >
> > >I purchased a SEAGATE 200GB IDE HDD, but when i installed it on a
> > >
> > >INTEL D865GBF (Motherboard)
> > >Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz with HT ( Processor)
> > >Seagate 120Gb (Primary Master) split into 3 equal partitions
> > >
> > >the computer recognizes only 127Gb???
> > >
> > >Help!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >Richard Parco
> >
> >
> > One of two things is wrong. You either do not have XP SP2 installed,
> > or your BIOS on your system can not recognize a drive that large. The
> > BIOS problem may be solved if there is a BIOS update for your
> > motherboard.
> >
> >