re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 10:09 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by geek9pm (274 messages posted) First things first. Bad new first. Either you have a very old BIOS in your computer or you are using an old version of XP. This problem shows up on older versions of windows taht are not up to date. And in some cases the problem is even in the BIOS of the computer. Until you fix that problem, any formatting and installation you do on partitions over 128GB (read 137GB) will be unpredictable. Now the Good News. Just update to SP2 and run simple utility before you crate any partitions above the 127GB mark. This problem is called the "48bit LBA" issue. It is now history if you are using SP2 or better. see http://www.48bitlba.com/ Geek9pm Written in response to: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 7:57 pm) Responses to this message: re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 6:20 am) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:11 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Wed, Apr 29, 2009, 7:57 pm) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Wed, Apr 29, 2009, 10:06 pm) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (geek9pm: Wed, Apr 29, 2009, 10:09 pm) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 6:20 am) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (geek9pm: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 7:13 am) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 7:11 am) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (geek9pm: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 7:25 am) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 9:23 am) re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 9:31 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