48 bit LBA harddisk not recognized?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by kenneth
(1 messages posted)
Dear friends
I've installed a 500 GB seagate ata on my w2k pro sp4 and it is recognized by the
OS only as 128 GB. I've been reading through the posts and tried the usual fixes
but all in vain. This is my hardware config:
Chipset GA-7DX amd 761 agp
BIOS Award v.6.00pg
1 x st360021a seagate 60gb on HDD 0 (holds the OS)
1 x st350063a " 500gb on HDD 1
2 X IBM 307030 on a RAID ide
2 gb kingston ddr ram
My bios recognizes the 500 gb harddisk correctly, but despite the SP 4 upgrade and
the manually added registry key EnableBigLba 0x1 it is stil not seen by the OS as
more than 128 gb.
Even more strange the identical hardware and software config recognized the 500 gb
before I had to reinstall the OS due to other issues. I've checked the harddrive
using Seagate Tools and no problems was found, so my guess is that it is an OS and
/ or driver problem!
As far as the SP 4 update is concerned, it didn't add the EnableBigLba key to the
registry, which I found strange, and when I added it manually, that as I said didn't
do any difference.
I've no conflicts visual in the Computer Mangement program as to rule out any hardware
/ driver conflicts.
please help, Kenneth
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