- 320gb SATA drive - W2K shows only 128gb
- Posted by SpaceMarine on July 8th, 2007
(this is a dupe post from a win2000 group, forgot to include this
group)
hello,
i recently bought a new samsung 320gb SATA II drive, OEM:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...es_HD321KJ.asp
(http://tinyurl.com/38s8bw)
....i installed it in a dell optiplex GX280, which according to the
bios sees it as a 320gb drive. then i used the w2k install cd to re-
install windows on it.
the problem -- windows 2000 server is only seeing it as a 128gb drive,
both in the win installer and in "Disk Management" post-installation.
i installed SP4 and the latest bios for the dell (A08).
any ideas on why it wouldnt be showing up at full capacity? ive never
owned a SATA drive before, so maybe theres some size limitation or
something im missing, dunno. it does say "Up to 167GB Formatted
Capacity per Disk" on the above spec page. if thats the case im not
even sure how id setup the other disks.
if ive missed any critical information i would be happy to supply.
thanks,
sm
- Posted by Rod Speed on July 8th, 2007
You need to add 48bit LBA support to your Win2K
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q305098
http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
SpaceMarine <spacemarine@mailinator.com> wrote:
- Posted by SpaceMarine on July 8th, 2007
On Jul 8, 3:31 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
yep, that did the job. guess the SP4 install alone didnt add this key.
ah, windows.
thanks
sm
- Posted by Rod Speed on July 8th, 2007
SpaceMarine <spacemarine@mailinator.com> wrote
Yep, but just with 2K.
XP and Vista dont have that problem, the key.
- Posted by student on July 9th, 2007
On 2007-07-08, Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
Xp still does....without either sp1 or sp2 on the original xp cdrom......
- Posted by Rod Speed on July 9th, 2007
student <guest@csus_.edu> wrote
'the key' was on the end of that line for a reason.
- Posted by chrisv on July 9th, 2007
Rod Speed wrote:
What was the reason? Certainly, it does not communicate the point
that "student" made...
- Posted by Rod Speed on July 9th, 2007
chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote
That you dont have to fart around manually with that key with XP and Vista.
He never had a relevant point.
SpaceMarine's problem was that while he had ensured that SP4 was installed,
he had not changed that key as well, so the 48 bit LBA wasnt actually active.
That problem with both ensuring that the correct SP is installed
AND the key changed doesnt arise with XP and Vista, only with 2K.
- Posted by SpaceMarine on July 18th, 2007
On Jul 9, 4:29 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
ah, windows.
