Re: How to get XP Pro to recognize a WD 200GB HDD??
From: Art (noonehere_at_longone.net)
Date: 12/19/04
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:29:57 -0500
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> "CHOUT" <CHOUT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to get XP Pro to see my WD 200GB hard drive as
a 200 and not a 137GB. Any clues? I know this story well but have never had
to deal with it until now. Will the SP2 update rectify this by any chance?
Thus far I have only partitioned it to C: at 12GB. The rest is untouched.
I will wait to see what is up from some responses here first before
proceeding any further. Cheers to all the for the help and Happy Holidaze!
Chout
Shenan Stanley responds...
Does your hardware (BIOS) recognize the full size of the hard drive?
What does Disk Manager see?
Do you not have at least SP1?
If you have at least SP1 installed and your hardware recognizes the hard
drive, then Windows XP will recognize the hard drive. You *will not* get
200GB out of it... But that has more to do with marketing than what OS you
use.
-- <- Shenan -> "HillBillyBuddhist" <hillbillybuddhist@shoescolumbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:ug8$Hvc5EHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > Why is the full capacity of EIDE drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary) > not recognized in Windows 2000/XP? > > http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=928&p_created=1049320914&p_sid=yT6EZmth&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1zZWFyY2hfZm5sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9MTM3&p_li= > > http://tinyurl.com/4wsty HBB Chout: As Shenan Stanley implies, the first requirement is that your motherboard's BIOS supports large-disk capability, i.e., hard disks larger than 137 GB. So everything that follows assumes that you have this BIOS support. The second requirement is that SP1 or SP2 has been installed to your OS. I take it that when you installed your 200 GB HD you did not have SP1 or SP2 installed. Under that scenario only 137 GB of your HD would be recognized by the OS. When you subsequently install SP2 the full capacity of the drive will be recognized, i.e., about 186 GB (this is what Shenan is alluding to when he says you will not see the entire 200 GB -- it's the difference between the manufacturer's advertised disk capacity and the different capacity computation employed by the OS). Now you say you've created a 12 GB partition. I'm assuming then that you did not format the remaining "unallocated space". When you subsequently install SP2, the remaining capacity of the disk will be recognized and you will be able to create one or more partitions and format those partition(s). Re HillBillyBuddhist's referral to the WD site that purports to explain the reason(s) why the original release of XP did not support large-capacity disks - I've never come across any reasonable explanation from Microsoft or anyone else as to why this limitation was imposed. Certainly the technology was present at the time the original XP OS was released in mid-2002 to easily incorporate a provision within the OS allowing the full recognition of disks having a capacity > 137 GB. I can only assume Microsoft had good and sufficient reasons for doing so but it's a puzzle to me. Art
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