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Asking for a friend,
hes just bought a new HDD (maxtor) 200GB, but windows only recognises it as 137GB, although its recognised at 190+GB when it POST's. Somebody has told him its a common problem where is the maximum size drive XP recognises. Anyone know if this is true? or if theres a fix?
Has he got service pack 2 installed? if not, that's the problem.
This happend to my non sp1 XP with a 160gb drive. The way around it is to formatt it not using windows, then install windows onto the existing partition. I used Samsung;s harddisk manager to do mine. Another alternitive is to find one with a sp2 copy of XP and install using your code and there disk.
As said, you need to have at least sp1 installed to support drives over 137GB.
slipstream sp2 on a cd and then reinstall xp
Isnt there a patch that is avaliable? I'm sure I read about it somwhere.
windows xp, since it was released in 2001, does not support addressing of disks over 137Gb. you need 48 bit logical block addressing, which is only found in XP service pack 1 (or 2000 service pack 3, or 2003, or any vaguely recent Linux)
when you install SP1 or SP2, you may need to change a registry key to enable it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters
new DWORD named EnableBigLba, value of 1
disk management (right click on my computer, manage) will show the remaining empty space after a reboot, it can be formatted as a new drive (or use partitionmagic to enlarge the old partition)
did you use maxblaster4 on the drive , if you did not thats the problem