xp only recognizesd my 320g HD as 130G???

[wheeler08]

In process of building new computer and installing xp, the bios recognises the HD as 320Gig. but when I go to thru XP setup, it only says its a 130g HD. Whats the deal?

 

[networkman]

Question:

Why is the full capacity of EIDE drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary) not recognized in Windows 2000/XP?

Answer:

48-bit LBA support is necessary for drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary). The following conditions are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit LBA support in Windows 2000/XP:

Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) must be installed for Windows XP versions prior to August 2002. For information about SP1, see Microsoft Article 322389.


The system must have a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) installed. This includes EIDE controller card BIOSs.


You must enable the support in the Windows registry.

The Microsoft Knowledge Base articles listed below provide important information about 48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137GB in Windows. For full details, carefully review the relevant article.

48-bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[rasczak]

got service pack 2 installed?

 

[wheeler08]

Ah, thanks. Well on my first attempt at installing XP, I made it all the way thru. Then once XP loaded I proceeded to install all my drivers for hardware, got that done. Then I went to windows update, got all the small updates before SP2, then restarted computer, then when I went to download SP2, the computer kept locking up. It does it about 2 min after xp loads, no matter what I'm doing. So now I'm tryibng to reinstall xp and do it over again. Any thing I done wrong in that process?

 

[rasczak]

download sp2 first. then all other updates.

 

[wheeler08]

ok, got computer all working like normal, got SP2 downloaded and installed. But I can't figure out how to get it to recognize my HD as being bigger, I read the above articles in those links, and that was like reading chinese. Is there an easier way?

 

[networkman]

Slipstreaming - that's the ticket.

Very easy to follow guide in the link. I had no troubles whatsoever the very first time I did it.

 

[wheeler08]

I got it figured out. Thanks for all the help guys

 

[rasczak]

post what you did for others in your shoes to view please

 

[TG2]

You need to have SP1 (or SP2) already integrated/slipstreamed with your install CD to be able to see all the hard drives size, otherwise its limited to 128gb
You can install SP2 after installing XP, but then youd have to make another partition with the rest of the drive, instead of having 1 large C drive

 

[wheeler08]

Yeah I had SP2 installed, then I had to go to manage drives under my computer properties, then had to format the other drives that now showed up after installing SP2