945GCT-M 48 bit BIOS Needed

[hemat]

Is there a 48 bit BIOS for the ecs motherboard 945gct-m v1.0?
I am trying to load a 500gb hdd, with windows xp sp2 and it only sees 137gb. what is the solution?

 

[Iron Woode]

is this a sata hdd or an IDE hdd?

who made the hdd?

check for a jumper limiting size on the hdd.

 

[Harvey]

From Microsoft's support site:

How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Using an XP SP2 slipstreamed disc? XP (original) will only see 137GB HDs.