thadude2
09-16-03, 07:11 AM
I bought a new Western Digital (WD1600JB, 160Gb, 8Mb cache) and when I tried to install Win2k, I saw "Unpartitioned space = 128Gb" !
I cancelled setup, and tried with WinXP. Same result. After a little search I found out that Win2k and WinXP couldn't see any more than 137Gb (128Gb binary) of the bigger hard disk drives.
According to Western Digital (http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=928&p_created=1049320914&p_sid=1c2EmYSg&p_lva=936&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzEmc F9jYXRfbHZsMT04MSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=) this can only be resolved with the installation of WinXP SP1 (assuming that your motherboard supports 48-bit LBA, and my Zenith does).
According to Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098), this can also be resolved with the installation of Win2k SP3 and higher, with the addition of a line in the registry, to enable 48-bit LBA.
So, what I did was:
* Run WinXP setup, created a 15Gb partition on the "128Gb" HDD
* Installed on this partition and boot on WinXP. Disk is still 128Gb(15+113)Gb
* Installed SP1. Disk is now 160Gb (15+145Gb UNpartitioned space)
* From inside XP, created 2 partitions with the remaining 145Gb (50 & 95 Gb)
Everything is working. If anyone else has a HDD>128Gb, help me with this question plz:
ALL my partitions are populated, the last one (95Gb) specifically is almost full. What if I have to re-install Windows? AFTER I install XP and BEFORE I install SP1, how will my third partition will look like? Is it gonna be 95Gb or 63Gb? It most propably gonna be 63Gb, but if I install then the SP1 and it will become again 95Gb, are my data gonna be fcked? I mean, before SP1 what is this partition going to look like? It has ~80Gb of data inside; is it gonna choose what to show in it's 63Gb temporary capacity?
Plz help if you too ever came across this situation.
thnx
I cancelled setup, and tried with WinXP. Same result. After a little search I found out that Win2k and WinXP couldn't see any more than 137Gb (128Gb binary) of the bigger hard disk drives.
According to Western Digital (http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=928&p_created=1049320914&p_sid=1c2EmYSg&p_lva=936&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzEmc F9jYXRfbHZsMT04MSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=) this can only be resolved with the installation of WinXP SP1 (assuming that your motherboard supports 48-bit LBA, and my Zenith does).
According to Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098), this can also be resolved with the installation of Win2k SP3 and higher, with the addition of a line in the registry, to enable 48-bit LBA.
So, what I did was:
* Run WinXP setup, created a 15Gb partition on the "128Gb" HDD
* Installed on this partition and boot on WinXP. Disk is still 128Gb(15+113)Gb
* Installed SP1. Disk is now 160Gb (15+145Gb UNpartitioned space)
* From inside XP, created 2 partitions with the remaining 145Gb (50 & 95 Gb)
Everything is working. If anyone else has a HDD>128Gb, help me with this question plz:
ALL my partitions are populated, the last one (95Gb) specifically is almost full. What if I have to re-install Windows? AFTER I install XP and BEFORE I install SP1, how will my third partition will look like? Is it gonna be 95Gb or 63Gb? It most propably gonna be 63Gb, but if I install then the SP1 and it will become again 95Gb, are my data gonna be fcked? I mean, before SP1 what is this partition going to look like? It has ~80Gb of data inside; is it gonna choose what to show in it's 63Gb temporary capacity?
Plz help if you too ever came across this situation.
thnx