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160 GB seen as 128GB?

Mickah · 2003-10-09 15:39:58

My BIOS recognises my new drive as a 160 GB drive. Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) does not. In the Computer Management Console, the drive is displayed as 128 GB unallocated disk? Any ideas?

09-10-2003 3:39pm

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Mickah

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My BIOS recognises my new drive as a 160 GB drive. Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) does not. In the Computer Management Console, the drive is displayed as 128 GB unallocated disk?

Any ideas?

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#2 09-10-2003 3:49pm

Creamy Goodness

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afaik win xp pro sp1 is the only o/s to provide support for hdd over 130gb

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#3 09-10-2003 4:00pm

Mickah

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Found out it just needed a registry tweak:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters]
"EnableBigLba"=dword:00000001
Save the above to a file called "add.reg" and double-clicking it should make the change.

No, however, I'm seeing 149.05GB instead of 128GB of my 160GB HD?

Does windows always lump off a bit of your drive?

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#4 09-10-2003 6:40pm

Tivoli

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149GB is 160,000,000,000 bytes

so 160Gb

its something to do with bits and bytes

yeah drive compenys have been screwing us for years lol

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#5 09-10-2003 6:42pm

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#6 10-10-2003 10:01am

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Its actually to do with bios a limit on the lba and chs addressing systems

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