Harddrives showing incorrect space.

coolerguy1984 · 26-August-06, 11:21 PM

what's up guys, a friend of mine has a 160gb and a 300gb hard drive, he recently formatted 'cause both hard drives were showing as 137gb each instead of it's normal size. So he tried to format again to see if that would fix the problem, but it still shows incorrect capacity.

pc specs:
pentium D 3.0ghz
2gig of pc3200
160gb ata100 - primary drive
300gb ata100
windows xp

Sleepy_Sentry · 26-August-06, 11:42 PM

Does he have the latest BIOS and Windows updates? I know you need a certain Windows update for Windows to recognize hard drives larger than 137 GB.

eascarface · 27-August-06, 12:00 AM

Yeah he needs to get either SP1 or SP2 I can't remeber which. The problem is that when Windows XP was written they thought that either we would never have 137GB hard drives

or that they were planning on releasing a new os by the time that hard drives were approaching that size.

coolerguy1984 · 27-August-06, 12:07 AM

he has SP1 and SP2 installed and the problem still occurs. he's also tried using magic partition, the windows disc manager, and tried the Seagate installation disc also. none of that worked.

THRiLL KiLL · 27-August-06, 01:55 AM

open your registry and go to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Atapi\Parameters]

Make a DWord Value = EnableBigLba

with a value of 1

reboot.

for more info
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us

coolerguy1984 · 27-August-06, 07:00 PM

It turns out that he didn't have all the SP2 updates installed, so now the problem is fixed. Thanks to all who helped.

26-August-06, 11:21 PM		#1 (permalink)
coolerguy1984 Apex Advanced Techie	Harddrives showing incorrect space. what's up guys, a friend of mine has a 160gb and a 300gb hard drive, he recently formatted 'cause both hard drives were showing as 137gb each instead of it's normal size. So he tried to format again to see if that would fix the problem, but it still shows incorrect capacity. pc specs: pentium D 3.0ghz 2gig of pc3200 160gb ata100 - primary drive 300gb ata100 windows xp

26-August-06, 11:42 PM		#2 (permalink)
Sleepy_Sentry Apex Tech Maniac	Re: Harddrives showing incorrect space. Does he have the latest BIOS and Windows updates? I know you need a certain Windows update for Windows to recognize hard drives larger than 137 GB.

27-August-06, 12:00 AM		#3 (permalink)
eascarface Apex Tech God	Re: Harddrives showing incorrect space. Yeah he needs to get either SP1 or SP2 I can't remeber which. The problem is that when Windows XP was written they thought that either we would never have 137GB hard drives or that they were planning on releasing a new os by the time that hard drives were approaching that size.

27-August-06, 12:07 AM		#4 (permalink)
coolerguy1984 Apex Advanced Techie	Re: Harddrives showing incorrect space. he has SP1 and SP2 installed and the problem still occurs. he's also tried using magic partition, the windows disc manager, and tried the Seagate installation disc also. none of that worked. Last edited by coolerguy1984; 27-August-06 at 12:14 AM..

27-August-06, 01:55 AM		#5 (permalink)
THRiLL KiLL PcApEX's PuNK ROckER	Re: Harddrives showing incorrect space. open your registry and go to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Atapi\Parameters] Make a DWord Value = EnableBigLba with a value of 1 reboot. for more info http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us

27-August-06, 07:00 PM		#6 (permalink)
coolerguy1984 Apex Advanced Techie	Re: Harddrives showing incorrect space. It turns out that he didn't have all the SP2 updates installed, so now the problem is fixed. Thanks to all who helped.

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