Re: 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry

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From: DL (dl_at_spoofmail.nothere)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:30:35 +0100

The Maxtor site has a utility which will add the reg keys - I have used it
with non Maxtor hw.
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/?epi_menuItemID=3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068&epi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&epi_baseMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=11

"Jalmari" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:40b101c49024$1a2aee20$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Recently I bought a Western Digital 200 Gb EIDE hard disk
> to my Dell workstation with Windows 2000/Service Pack 4.
> As i started to install the device I found out that
> Windows 2000 does not support hard disks over 137 Gb
> without software (registry) update.
>
> Windows Knowledge base article indicates that you must add
> or change the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the
> following registry subkey:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Atapi/
> Parameters. You should then choose Edit Menu, click Add
> Value and then add following registry value:
>
> Value name: EnableBigLba
> Data type: REG_DWORD
> Value data: 0x1
>
> When I click Edit menu I do not get Add Value choice so I
> cannot fill in the information. A friend suggested that I
> should right click the area on the right, and choose
> String Value. It did not lead to solving the problem, as
> again I could not fill in the required information!
>
> MS instructions are faulty or inaccurate, what should I do
> in order to fill in the required modifications to
> registry??
>
>

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