Re: large disk support

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:33:43 -0500

48bit LBA in Win2K -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Does the BIOS of the platform the drive is installed on recognize this 300GB 48bit LBA drive
? 

-- 
Dave
"Kayton" <Kayton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:98009E5A-ECC4-4911-BD33-87AC4DA200F8@microsoft.com...
| I have a 300 GB hard drive that I use as my primary drive.  It has windows
| 2000 p installed on it and I have SP4.  The system only recognizes 100GB of
| the hard drive and not the remaining 200GB.  I only have the 300GB hard drive
| for use as my other drive recently crashed.
|
| Any suggestions on how to get the system to recognize the full capacity of
| the hard drive?

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