Windows XP and BIG Hard Drives

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Check your motherboard or computer manufacturer's User's Guide
and find how large a hard drive your motherboard is designed to support.

Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316505

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

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"Nick" <jammy357@hotmail.com> wrote in message:
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| Help please
|
| I have two 160Gb Hard drives in my PC. Ive learned that
| XP will only recognise disk drives up to 137Gb for some
| reason, although by the time my machine has done its
| stuff it only register as 125Gb. Thats a lot of disk
| space to lose off 2 drives but im sure there must be a
| solution to this problem since sales of large disks
| appear to be brisk. Can anybody offer advice or help on
| what to do about this??
|
| Anything will be greatly appreciated
|
| respects
|
| Nick  

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

I Don't have any experience of disks this large, but could you partition
them into a couple of smaller virtual disks?

ChrisM

"Nick" <jammy357@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9c7201c43429$07e6db90$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Help please
>
> I have two 160Gb Hard drives in my PC. Ive learned that
> XP will only recognise disk drives up to 137Gb for some
> reason, although by the time my machine has done its
> stuff it only register as 125Gb. Thats a lot of disk
> space to lose off 2 drives but im sure there must be a
> solution to this problem since sales of large disks
> appear to be brisk. Can anybody offer advice or help on
> what to do about this??
>
> Anything will be greatly appreciated
>
> respects
>
> Nick