Dimension 8200 recognize drives > 128GB?

Hello,

I have a Dimension 8200 desktop, to which I've just added a 160GB secondary
hard drive. To my surprise (the system isn't that old) it only recognized
128GB of the drive. I upgraded the BIOS to A09, but that doesn't seem to
have made any difference. Does anyone know if there's anything else I can
do at the hardware or firmware levels to correct this? I'd prefer not to
use Western Digital's overlay if possible. Thanks for any tips.

--
Mike

I meant to mention - I'm also out of PCI slots, so an add-in controller card
wouldn't help, either. Thanks again.

--
Mike

"Mike Fairleigh" wrote in message
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| Hello,
|
| I have a Dimension 8200 desktop, to which I've just added a 160GB
secondary
| hard drive. To my surprise (the system isn't that old) it only recognized
| 128GB of the drive. I upgraded the BIOS to A09, but that doesn't seem to
| have made any difference. Does anyone know if there's anything else I can
| do at the hardware or firmware levels to correct this? I'd prefer not to
| use Western Digital's overlay if possible. Thanks for any tips.
|
| --
| Mike

Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160+ GB drive in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...137_winxp.html

I have a drive that is larger than 137 GB but the operating system only
recognizes 128 GB or 137 GB. How can I fix this?

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/m...YWdlPTE*&p_li=

http://tinyurl.com/67nwe


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Did you also enable large drive support under Windows (either in the
registry or by using WD's utility)?



Mike Fairleigh wrote:
Hello,

I have a Dimension 8200 desktop, to which I've just added a 160GB secondary
hard drive. To my surprise (the system isn't that old) it only recognized
128GB of the drive. I upgraded the BIOS to A09, but that doesn't seem to
have made any difference. Does anyone know if there's anything else I can
do at the hardware or firmware levels to correct this? I'd prefer not to
use Western Digital's overlay if possible. Thanks for any tips.

I have a WD 250gig in my Dimension 8200 as a second drive, running XP Pro
with no problems at all.

No overlays needed, And I don't remember having to do anything special.

And yes it has the A09 bios if I remember.

"Mike Fairleigh" wrote in message
. com...
Hello,

I have a Dimension 8200 desktop, to which I've just added a 160GB
secondary
hard drive. To my surprise (the system isn't that old) it only recognized
128GB of the drive. I upgraded the BIOS to A09, but that doesn't seem to
have made any difference. Does anyone know if there's anything else I can
do at the hardware or firmware levels to correct this? I'd prefer not to
use Western Digital's overlay if possible. Thanks for any tips.

--
Mike

The WD instructions specify to turn on LBA in the BIOS. Neither the A05 nor
the A09 BIOS say anything about LBA, so I don't know how to do that. Can
you point me to the registry settings I'd need to change to enable large
drive support? When you mention WD's utility, as far as I know that's just
an overlay which I'd really like to avoid using if possible. Thanks for
your help and taking the time to reply on this problem.

--
Mike


"Edward J. Neth" wrote in message
...
Did you also enable large drive support under Windows (either in the
registry or by using WD's utility)?



Mike Fairleigh wrote:
Hello,

I have a Dimension 8200 desktop, to which I've just added a 160GB
secondary
hard drive. To my surprise (the system isn't that old) it only
recognized
128GB of the drive. I upgraded the BIOS to A09, but that doesn't seem
to
have made any difference. Does anyone know if there's anything else I
can
do at the hardware or firmware levels to correct this? I'd prefer not
to
use Western Digital's overlay if possible. Thanks for any tips.

What a mystery. I should've mentioned that I'm running Win2K, SP4. Maybe
there's something in XP that's missing in win2k for large drive support??

--
Mike


"Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message
...
I have a WD 250gig in my Dimension 8200 as a second drive, running XP Pro
with no problems at all.

No overlays needed, And I don't remember having to do anything special.

And yes it has the A09 bios if I remember.

Hey HB,

I saw a couple of other replies and responded to them before I saw yours.
THANK YOU! The Maxtor utility (BigDriveEnabler) did the trick. It seems
like those two registry keys should have been updated when I applied SP3 or
SP4. Anyway, it's all good now. Thanks again, and thanks to everyone else
who replied.

--
Mike


"HillBillyBuddhist" wrote in message
news:8%pId.48155 Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160+ GB drive
in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...137_winxp.html

I have a drive that is larger than 137 GB but the operating system only
recognizes 128 GB or 137 GB. How can I fix this?


http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/m...YWdlPTE*&p_li=

http://tinyurl.com/67nwe

Personally, I also like the Intel Application Accelerator (IAA) solution as
explained on the Maxtor web site. IAA works with any Intel chipset motherboard
with 810 or later chipset, so it should work on just about any Dell. (IAA works
just fine on any Dell where I've installed it.) Of course, the problem would
still be a chicken-and-egg one, because one would need to install the OS on the
large drive, then install IAA, which provides LBA access. Leave it to Microsoft
to continually fall short in handling hard drive capacities in its operating
systems. They've been doing it since DOS 2.1. Now, Linux has NO PROBLEM
accessing large capacity hard drives, even when the motherboard BIOS is
limited... Ben Myers

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:34:44 GMT, "HillBillyBuddhist"
wrote:

"Mike Fairleigh" wrote in message
.com...
| Hello,
|
| I have a Dimension 8200 desktop, to which I've just added a 160GB
secondary
| hard drive. To my surprise (the system isn't that old) it only recognized
| 128GB of the drive. I upgraded the BIOS to A09, but that doesn't seem to
| have made any difference. Does anyone know if there's anything else I can
| do at the hardware or firmware levels to correct this? I'd prefer not to
| use Western Digital's overlay if possible. Thanks for any tips.
|
| --
| Mike

Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160+ GB drive in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...137_winxp.html

I have a drive that is larger than 137 GB but the operating system only
recognizes 128 GB or 137 GB. How can I fix this?

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/m...YWdlPTE*&p_li=

http://tinyurl.com/67nwe


--
D

I'm not an MVP a VIP nor do I have ESP.
I was just trying to help.
Please use your own best judgment before implementing any suggestions or
advice herein.
No warranty is expressed or implied.
Your mileage may vary.
See store for details.

Remove shoes to E-mail.