Re: 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000

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There is no loss real involved, it's how the capacity is being measured, using
either the binary system or the decimal system. Read this FAQ for details:

Why is my drive displaying a smaller than expected capacity than the indicated
size on the drive label?
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A drive that's rated as 160 GB (160,000,000,000 bytes) by the manufacturer is
using the decimal system to convert bytes to gigabytes. In Windows, this would
show up as 149 GB and 160,000,000,000 bytes in the Properties.

Your 200 GB drive should read approximately as 186 GB in Windows.

It's similar to temperature readings done in Centigrade vs. Fahrenheit....the
numbers may be different but the actual temperature remains the same.

"nesredep egrob" <borge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:15:02 -0800, man <man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| >Thanks all first
| >
| >Since it still show 137G now after modify the registry, is it just format
| >the D: in disk management then it will become 160G ?
|
| There will be some loss. My 200 Gb Drive is partitioned but when you add up
the
| individual parttions you will find that I have only got 185GB available for
| programs and data. You must recon on losing 15-20 gb for the drive index.
| 23 gb for a 160gb disk seems a bit too much.
|
| Borge
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >"nesredep egrob" wrote:
| >
| >> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:19:03 -0800, man <man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
| >>
| >> >Hi all
| >> >
| >> >I got a PC(w2k sp4) with 2 SATA HD, c:=80G and d:=160G
| >> >When I get back the PC from the vendor, the d: only shown 137G
| >> >I found some article talk about this that I need to modify the registry
and
| >> >I already modify it, but how can I format the d: into 160G ?
| >> >
| >> >Any suggestion or link can provide ?
| >> >
| >> >thanks a lot
| >>
| >> Start/run/regedit
| >> select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
| >> navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
| >> system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
| >> right click for new
| >> Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
| >> set value to 1
| >> end regedit
| >> reboot
| >>
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| >>


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