Win2k Pro sees 160gig as 128gig?

[Homerboy]

What would cause this to happen? Win2k machine is running on newer MSI MB with NForce2 chipset, tried 2 dif 160gig drives both seen at 128 gig and not their "real" 148gig. Toss them into a WinXP machine and there's n/p


Help.

 

[wseyller]

I don't know about your mobo but seems the hardware or software doesn't support 48-bit LBA addressing. The bios has to support this, the bus that the hdd uses must support it, the chipset and the OS has to support it.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
What would cause this to happen? Win2k machine is running on newer MSI MB with NForce2 chipset, tried 2 dif 160gig drives both seen at 128 gig and not their "real" 148gig. Toss them into a WinXP machine and there's n/p


Help.

What service pack is the Windows 2000 machine running?

 

[MrChad]

305098 - 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000