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re: 250gb hard drive only showing 130gb hard drive? Friday, June 8, 2007 at 4:04 pm Posted by Steve (21647 messages posted) Look in the bios to find out. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 250gb hard drive only showing 130gb hard drive? Friday, June 8, 2007 at 8:57 pm Posted by geek9pm (274 messages posted) After you install SP-4 you may still neeed to enable the 48 bit LBA if it is a ATA drive. This may also be true of XP in some cases. An explanation of this is on the Seagate site. Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 250gb hard drive only showing 130gb hard drive? Friday, June 8, 2007 at 9:45 pm Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted) Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. -- Chinese proverb -- How to enable HD's over 137gb. A computer with a hard disk that has a capacity of greater than 137 gigabytes (GB). 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/ Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp2/sp2lang.asp How to install multiple Windows updates or hotfixes with only one reboot http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/HFDeploy.htm Great Free Software Click Here C. H. Forum Click Here On Friday, June 8, 2007 at 2:45 pm, Mike wrote: >I've got a new system with a 250gb sata drive installed. During install, the MS >install windows showed the drive as a 130gb hard drive (windows 2000). A friend >said it requires sp4 to be able to see the entire drive. I installed all updates >past sp4 and still, only 130gb show. Under Disk Management it only shows 130gb, >nothing more, not even an extra drive. What's wrong? Is it a bios setting? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 250gb hard drive only showing 130gb hard drive? Friday, June 8, 2007 at 10:07 pm Posted by geek9pm (274 messages posted) Did you read all that? Did you try it? The 137 GB issue is a "native" problem in windows. Only XP 64 and Vista have it right. Does the "Hot Fix" resolve this in Windows 2000? How would you know if it does or does not? References outside MS say the problem is bigger that what MS will admit to. It is not just a tweak in the code. Here is the Seagate document: http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf Heres is a quote "See also the support.microsoft.com Knowledgebase articles that explain how to enable large drive support after the Service Packs are installed." Which could mean that the SP itself does not turn it ON! Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum