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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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l'bodacious - HTH

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