Re: large disk support

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

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

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:21:48 -0500

Partition Magic -- assuming the OS has the Registry set as per the URL I provided. 

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Dave
"Kayton" <Kayton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E54650D3-8836-4034-8451-8B8EDDD4A63C@microsoft.com...
| 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?
| >
| >
| >