re: 48 bit LBA harddisk not recognized?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
Did you use a slipstreamed install CD that had SP4 in it? If not, you should have
disconnected the drive and reconnected after applying SP4 and adding the reg entry.
Otherwise, using a slipstreamed SP4 CD should have enabled it when Windows installed.
Always has for me, but there are some BIOS' that can have some issues on very large
drives. (do you have the latest BIOS update?) Not using a slipstreamed CD usually
caused me problems on large disks after the fact if SP3 or 4 wasn't incorporated
into the setup disc.
On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 2:49 pm, kenneth wrote:
>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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