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XP and Large Hard Disks (Attempt #6)
Greetings again, group. This is my 6th post here. My first 5 posts all asked the same question. And though I received 7 answers, none of them were relevant. But I'm patient, so I'll try again, this time in a new thread. My question is simple, really: In the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, is any manual registry edit required for safe usage of hard disks larger than 137GB? But in the last 60 days, I have received 0 relevant answers to that question, even after asking it here 5 times. As background, so you can see why I'm so insistant in trying to get some folks to give relevant answers to that question, you should know that I'm currently using Windows 2000, in which the 137GB issue is a MIGHTY BIG issue. With Win2K, even if your motherboard supports hard disks larger than 137GB, you MUST make a manual registry edit for such large disks to work right: Go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Param eters and change "EnableBigLBA" from 0 to 1. If you fail to do this, any data you attempt to write to the upper portion of your hard disk (over 137GB) will, instead, overwrite data on the lower portion (under 137GB), DESTROYING YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM, PROGRAMS, AND DATA. Which is not a good thing. (To put it mildly.) Hence, I ask again: In the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, is any manual registry edit required for safe usage of hard disks larger than 137GB? -- Persistant, Robbie Hatley lonewolf at well dot com www dot well dot com slant tilde lonewolf slant |
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