Re: Win 2000 - not friendly with big disks?
From: Mike Brown - Process Manager (mikebNOSPAM_at_NOSPAMassetforwarding.comNOSPAM)
Date: 03/31/04
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:51:17 -0500
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Many thanks. Yes, I've read that piece and it has a a
> seeming error which prevented the solution from working
> for me. The instruction:
>
> Value name: EnableBigLba
> Data type: REG_DWORD
> Value data: 0x1
>
> is not effective as the last line cannot be inputted into
> the dialogue box in the REgistry Editor using an 'x'
> character. Instead, I've now found, to generate it you
> need to type in
>
> 00000001
>
> to be able to see '0x1' appear correclty.
>
> Using this I can now see 152gb of the disk, which, I must
> say, still seems a little low but is much better than just
> 128gb.
A gigabyte is not actually 1,000,000,000 bytes, as you may have been led to
believe. Capacities in computers are figured in powers of 2, 2 to the 30th
power in this case, which comes out to 1,073,741,824 bytes for a gigabyte.
Multiply 152 * that, and you get 163,208,757,248, which explains the "160GB"
label. HD manufacturers like to tell a little white lie, and call it
"160GB" when they really mean "160 billion bytes (approximately)." Your
drive is working correctly.
RAM, on the other hand, is more accurate in representation. Your 256MB RAM
module will POST as 262144K, which may appear to be 262MB, but using this
math is really 256MB.
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