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WD Hard Drive Size Issue
Windows XP with Service Pack 1 has the 48 bit addressing.
"Grinder" wrote in message news:ck9zg.866512$084.32494@attbi_s22... Carl Lucas wrote: Have a Dell Dimension 8300 desktop. Just installed a Western Digital 160 gig hard drive without any problems. An issue is that the set up shows the drive as 160 gig. However in Windows it shows it as a 126 gig. What's with that? After I installed it I went to "Control Panel", "Administrative Tools", "Computer Management", "Disk Management". There it showed the drive as 126 gig. Of course I had to format it so I did. So why is it shown as 126 and not 160? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. |
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