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200Gb disks and Windows XP Pro
Steven Lyall wrote:
I bought a WD 200Gb drive. The literature from WD says that for Windows XP, I have to install an Ultra ATA controller as XP won't handle above 137Gb. I inadvertently missed the instructions and connected the new drive as slave via my existing motherboard connection and accepted the installation of 'EZ-BIOS'. Now it 'appears' that XP is seeing the new drive as a 200Gb drive. I am tempted to leave as-is, but am I asking for trouble if I don't use the ATA controller? The information from WD is not correct. To use a disk that needs '48 bit LBA' you need A suitable disk - evidently A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that can handle 48 bit LBA *or* a plug in card which can Windows XP *with SP1* It would appear that your motherboard's BIOS and controller *do* support it, and so it is working in XP SP1. It might be worth checking at Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager for the IDE ATA/ATAPI disk controllers - Primary channel (or secondary if you put the drive on the second cable) and its Properties - Advanced to see what DMA mode it is running in. A motherboard is likely to support only up to UDMA 5 - the card would allow UDMA 6, which is marginally faster, though you would be unlikely to notice the difference. But if you have been able to partition to use the whole 200GB (which will be seen as about 186 'binary' GB in partitioning) then there is no need to do anything -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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