From: Ellen K. 

Thanks, I saved that.    :)

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:09:05 -0800, You Can
 wrote in message
:

>Geo. posted the following to homeless.nthelp:
>
>> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>> news:3dcf7785$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> > > Geo. (note to John O, my bios recognizes the 185g drives
just fine)
>> > >
>> >
>> > That's just cruel.......away from his bleeding wounds with
your salt &
>> > carbolic...you fiend 
>>
>> further update, even though bios is supposed to support it it still doesn't
>> work. Am limited to 127.94mb for some reason. Bios is dated August 2002.
>>
>> I'm being told I need to install some intel software thingie to use it. Will
>> let you know how that goes but that to me suggests intel chipset not system
>> bios.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>
>>
>Geo.,
>I read this in a resent newsletter.  It's for XP but may apply to W2K:
>TIP: RECOGNIZING A DRIVE'S TOTAL CAPACITY
>   (contributed by David Chernicoff, david{at}winnetmag.com)
>
>Because extreme-capacity ATA hard drives are becoming so commonplace,
>I decided to upgrade one of my computers with a 160GB hard disk. You
>can imagine my annoyance when the computer didn't recognize the hard
>disk's total capacity. To get the hard disk to work correctly, I had
>to do two things (if you install a hard disk that has a capacity of
>more than 137GB, you'll need to take these same steps).
>
>First, I had to check the BIOS to make sure that 48-bit Logical Block
>Addressing (LBA) support is available. For my system, I needed to
>download and install a BIOS upgrade to my Promise Technology Ultra 100
>ATA controller card.
>
>Second, I had to upgrade my Windows XP computer to Service Pack 1
>(SP1) and modify the registry by performing the following steps
>(48-bit LBA support is currently only available in Windows XP):
>   1. Launch regedit.
>   2. Open the
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
>registry subkey.
>   3. Add a REG_DWORD value name EnableBigLba and set its value to 1.
>   4. Exit regedit.
>   5. Reboot.

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