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Steve thanks for your help,I've got to the bottom of this and managed via a
Dell community Forum to find out that my chipset is not 48bit compatible so I
now have the option of sorting via getting a controller card. I've managed
to sort out the printer it was as you said when updating the BIOS the ports
setings are left incorrect.
Again many thanks for your help .............. I shall return!
"Steve Parry [MVP]" wrote:
> "zippy" <zippy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2E22B6B2-BFF0-4174-AA6B-C406D9CA5D70@microsoft.com...
> > Its a LPT printer. I updated the BIOS as my PC is 4 years old and
> > never been
> > done and seemed to be a prerequisite for solving my hard disc problem.
> > Did
> > you read my post before this one; I could not use your link to find
> > out how
> > to use notepad to edit regedit
> >
>
> Copied from that link:
> "Prior to Service Pack 3, Windows 2000 did NOT support 48-bit Logical
> Block Addressing (LBA), as specified in the ATA/ATAPI 6.0 specification.
>
> If you have a 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS, and a hard disk larger than
> 137 GB, you can enable 48-bit LBA support:
>
> 1. Copy / Paste the following to a LBA48.reg file:
> REGEDIT4
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters]
> "EnableBigLba"=dword:00000001
>
> 2. Merge the LBA48.reg file with your registry or run regedit /s
> <path>\LBA48.reg.
> NOTE: If you enable 48-bit LBA support on a system that does NOT have a
> 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS, and a hard disk larger than 137 GB, you will
> experience data corruption."
>
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>
> --
> Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP
>
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