Windows XP reports larger disk size than BIOS Friday, November 24, 2006 at 11:03 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mark Ess (1 messages posted) I installed a 200GB ATA-100 drive in a system with an older PIII motherboard (pulled from an IBM PC 300GL). System BIOS reports drive as 137 GB, which makes me think the BIOS doesn't support 48 bit LBA (BIOS version is from July 2002). A fresh install of WIN XP w/SP2 shows a more correct 186gb formatted capacity though. The drive is on the Motherboard's IDE connector (not a separate controller), so I'm not sure why Windows is reporting larger capacity than the hardware reports in BIOS. Makes me wonder if my data is stable, and if so, do I really have 186 GB available? Anybody else seen this before? Thanks, Mark Responses to this message: re: Windows XP reports larger disk size than BIOS (xxxxxme: Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 12:53 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Windows XP reports larger disk size than BIOS (Mark Ess: Fri, Nov 24, 2006, 11:03 pm) re: Windows XP reports larger disk size than BIOS (xxxxxme: Sat, Nov 25, 2006, 12:53 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum