Re: 200G Hard Drive

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nesredep egrob wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:11:16 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

nesredep egrob wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:53:37 GMT, John Wunderlich
<jwunderlich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<JoJo> wrote in news:OOLVY2VpGHA.4236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Folks:


Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
* How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
200 G capacity of the hard drive ?

Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.

Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
solves the problem?

You could try this:
Start/run/regedit


No, if his BIOS doesn't support the drive (and that's what he says)
this won't work. Nothing you do in Windows will make visible
something the BIOS can't see.

Well I did not see that, sorry.



OK, not a problem. I just wanted to make sure he didn't go off on a wild
goose chase.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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