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Disk Size

tommycahir · 2004-02-04 10:11:24

hi all this may sound stupid but i after buying a new 160GB western digital and when i installed it and went to install windows 2000 on it twas only recognised as a 131GB disk now the ques why is it not recognised as a 160GB(usually roughly 156gb) tanx tommy

04-02-2004 11:11am

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tommycahir

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hi all
this may sound stupid but i after buying a new 160GB western digital and when i installed it and went to install windows 2000 on it twas only recognised as a 131GB disk
now the ques why is it not recognised as a 160GB(usually roughly 156gb)

tanx
tommy

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#2 04-02-2004 11:30am

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cos win2k doesn't have 48bit lba by default (over 137gb drives)

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#3 04-02-2004 11:30am

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use the search tool. there's a thread on this recently . you probably need a service pack.

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#4 04-02-2004 2:11pm

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i had problems with this recently. you need to install the service pack and update your motherboards bios so that both the bios and the op sys support 48-bit LBA.

check the link that quarryman posted.

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#5 04-02-2004 2:35pm

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tanx guys i downloaded the bios upgrade and the service pack and am going to try them out this even

quarryman tanx for the link
but unfortunately the collage has the proxy set to block out boards.ie and i using the ip address insead so couldnt connect to it i just did a search and came across a thread fairly similar

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#6 04-02-2004 2:46pm

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but unfortunately the collage has the proxy set to block out boards.ie

bastards!

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#8 04-02-2004 3:23pm

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wow. cool, never knew bout that. very usefull

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