Re: large disk support

From: Kayton (Kayton_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:13:08 -0800

Yes, it does.

I went to the computer management screen under administrative tools. The
disk management shows 89 GB defined as the system drive and another 199 GB of
the drive which is unallocated.

Is there a way to "merge" these two spaces together?

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> 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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