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Hi All,
I just installed a seagate 200GB drive, all went smoothly but I only have 130GB to play with. It's installed as the slave, the switch break is in the second position from left, if looking rear end on). It all works great but I'm missing some HD space......
I used diskminder to format it in NTFS.
I run:
Intel PBZ875
P4 2Gig
Dual XP Pro OS system
Quantum Fireball 30 GB master (DAW)
Seagate 200GB slave (storage and 2nd OS)
1GB RAM

Anything else you need to know?
Some insight into this matter would be great.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;303013



Might be worth checking what the BIOS reports the HDD size of first...some older ones don't support such large volumes. Else, it's a Windows issue.

Oh, you need to install XP service pack 1 too.

The basic steps are:

Open regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesAtapiParameters

Change EnableBigLba to 1

Reboot

Should do the trick! (You might have to repartition the drive afterwards...not sure as I've never been down this path).

Royston

A bit more:

There is a limit on ATA100 drives I think of about 127GB...ATA133 sorts that out (but the SP1 reg entry fix above circumvents this). I think that the disk cannot be made to boot in this case (but it's not your boot disk anyway).

I'd also suggest getting the latest IDE/ATA controller drivers for your motherboard, as sometimes it's the driver which doesn't support the large volume size.

Royston

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Counterparts on 2005-02-09 07:58 ]</font>

Thanks for the quick response Royston, I'll give your recommendations a go in the AM (It's now well after my beddy-byes time)This makes sense though..
Will let you know the outcome.

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Ricardo (of the slightly bigger Clan 'Ricardo')

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Ricardo on 2005-02-09 08:23 ]</font>

All is well, many thanks.
BTW the Seagate site had a download called diskwizard (many of you know this of course) but this made all the registry changes for me.
Cheers Royston

No worries