Re: WINDOWS 2000 NOT RECOGNIZING ALL OF MY 200Gb HARD DRIVE

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 11/22/04

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    This article may help.

    48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Ron" wrote:
|I have Windows 2000 upgraded to service pack 3. I purchased a new 200 gig
| SATA hard drive today and it will only recognize around 119 gigs of that. 
I
| also have another 100 gig hard drive installed and it doesnt even
| acknowledge its existance. I paid a computer tech to install this and yet 
I
| still have the above problems
|
| I would appreciate any help/advice.
|
| Cheers
|
| Ron
|
|
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