200G disk can not make the full use

[livego]

the message show "ATA disk drivers ship with windows do not support drives greater than 137GB",
Should I change the mainboard or th O.S.?
Please help me

[Mike M]

I think you will not only need a motherboard that supports 48 bit LBA
addressing but also XP Service Pack 1 (Home or Pro) or later to fully utilise
your hard disk.

See MS KB 303013 - "How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for
ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=303013).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



livego > wrote:

> the message show "ATA disk drivers ship with windows do not support
> drives greater than 137GB", Should I change the mainboard or th O.S.?
> Please help me

[Jerry]

Doen't necessarily need a new motherboard, a PCI controller card that
supports that size drives will work.

"Mike M" > wrote in message
...
> I think you will not only need a motherboard that supports 48 bit LBA
> addressing but also XP Service Pack 1 (Home or Pro) or later to fully
utilise
> your hard disk.
>
> See MS KB 303013 - "How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support
for
> ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=303013).
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
>
>
>
> livego > wrote:
>
> > the message show "ATA disk drivers ship with windows do not support
> > drives greater than 137GB", Should I change the mainboard or th O.S.?
> > Please help me
>
>

[Rick T]

Mike M wrote:

> I think you will not only need a motherboard that supports 48 bit LBA
> addressing but also XP Service Pack 1 (Home or Pro) or later to fully utilise
> your hard disk.

Very few users will find the XP service pack useful here, I think <g>.


>
> See MS KB 303013 - "How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for
> ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=303013).

ditto.


Rick

[Mike M]

The OP asked what operating system he would require to be able to use his
200GB drive. Win Me does not nor XP. He needs to run as a minimum XP SP1 or
later.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Rick T > wrote:

> Mike M wrote:
>
>> I think you will not only need a motherboard that supports 48 bit LBA
>> addressing but also XP Service Pack 1 (Home or Pro) or later to fully
>> utilise your hard disk.
>
> Very few users will find the XP service pack useful here, I think <g>.

[Rick T]

Mike M wrote:

> The OP asked what operating system he would require to be able to use his
> 200GB drive. Win Me does not nor XP. He needs to run as a minimum XP SP1 or
> later.

Hmm, yes I suppose reading the Subject might occasionally come in handy <g>


Rick

[Mike M]

LOL.

Been there, done that, and no doubt will continue to do so in the future. :-)

Cheers,
--
MM


Rick T > wrote:

> Mike M wrote:
>
>> The OP asked what operating system he would require to be able to use his
>> 200GB drive. Win Me does not nor XP. He needs to run as a minimum XP
>> SP1 or later.
>
> Hmm, yes I suppose reading the Subject might occasionally come in handy
> <g>
>
>
> Rick

[Rick T]

livego wrote:

> the message show "ATA disk drivers ship with windows do not support drives greater than 137GB",
> Should I change the mainboard or th O.S.?
> Please help me

Actually, it's "... do not support drive ***partitions*** greater than
137GB".



Rick