Re: XP has trouble recognizing my 160 GB drive

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From: Henry (Henry_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 18:55:01 -0700

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> Please read the following --
> 48bit LBA in WinXP -
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> "Henry" <Henry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F1E9ABFC-BE44-4842-A198-800407E2CA44@microsoft.com...
> | I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
> | shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
> | drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
> | files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
> | had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
> | knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
> | get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
> | I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.
> |
> | Thanks for your help.
>
>
Thanks David, I have already read that article and I checked my registry and
the value for EnableBigLba is set to 1. Is there possibly another issue I may
not have addressed yet?

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