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re: Large drive problem Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 4:18 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) To Enable 48 bit addressing you need SP1, or 2, plus the Computer Bios has to support it. More info http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Large drive problem Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 7:56 pm Posted by dan (379 messages posted) Try to devide the Hd into partitions that each partition is not over 130 Gb limit. This the way I did with my Xp pro without service pack. It will work fine if the Bios support it On Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 4:03 pm, rmcellig wrote: >I was given a Dell 4500s and just replaced the HD from a 20GB to a 250GB drive. Problem >is that after installing XP Home, my drive size is around 131GB in size. How can >I get it back to the 250GB size? [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 XP Discussion Forum