Got back in town last night.... As near as I can tell, this WinXP vs WinXPSR2 LBA thingie was the problem. I started the build using plain WinXP and decided to use another copy I had bought that had SP2 built in (how one can forget). So, apparently SP2 say that initial partition and just went with it. However, after I got everything upand running, I get into disk manager and it finally showed a 127 GB partition and another 36 GB partition. At that point it was easy to fix.
What's confusing is that upon the initial build of this computer I didn't have that SR2 version of WinXP. Yet, both drives formatted out at full capacity. Who knows? thanks. ---- Richard Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ============= What he said. And even in WinXPSP2, if the initially installed drive is less than 128MB, and you decide to install a larger drive afterwards, you have to go into the registry to "enable" 48bitLBA for WinXp to recognize it correctly. MS fault. Install XPSP2 and you should have no problems. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier(Gmail) Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:57 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] WD 180G => 127G IIRC, XP-SP1 had the limitation of 127G and XP-SP2 broke that barrier... 48bit LBA (Note there are different measurement types and the numbers might look "different"...) http://www.48bitlba.com/ It could also be the BIOS if this done in different machines... Rick Glazier From: "Anthony Q. Martin" > This is strange... > > I've been having problems for a long time on this one PC of mine... > > Finally, I decide to reformat/reinstall... > > Initially, I had this PC setup with 2 WD 180GB drives in a mirror configuration > > This time, I decided to break that and just use both HDs as normal hard drives. > > After breaking the raid and choosing to reformat the first disc, WinXP decides it only wants to see a 127 GD dics. The BIOS sees > the disc as 180 GB, however. > > For reasons I'll skip, I decided to reformat the second drive and install WinXPSP2 on it instead. Windows sees this one as a 180GB > disc and formats it fine. > > Now I have both drives install and WinXPSP2 sees one as a 180 GB disc and the other as a 127 GB disc. > > What's up with this? This machins is GigaByte GA-SInXP-1394 mobo that I put together a couple of years ago (P4 3.06 GHz PC). The > mobo is recent enough to support SATA so I don't think there is simply a problem recognizing the drive. > > I think there is something wrong with that HD that formats to 127 GB when it should be 180. There are no other partitions on it, > BTW. > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > Happy Holidays, Y'all!!
