200gb hard drive problem

[e5fxty]

Anyone know how to deal with this problem. Just bought a 200 gb hard drive. It only reads up 137gb with XP build 2600 because of the 48 bit. I only have the 2600 build with out sp1 so it could read the full 200gb. Is there anyway around this outside of buying a new copy of xp. Can I partition it with western Digital software for the 200gb load the old version of xp then upgrade to sp1 afterwards?

 

[imported_aten]

i had a problem like that i had a 40gb hd and it only reading...31.1 gb

 

[itachi]

wrong section.. your bios/controller doesn't support the 48-bit addressing. update the firmware/drivers.. if that doesn't work, get a new controller that supports 'big drive'.

 

[Rakewell]

Check WD for firmware, I had the same issues with a Maxtor drive recently that was fixed by download. Also, there is a command you can put in the system registry to enable large drives in Windows. (I don't remember what it is off hand, but if you google you'll find it).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rakewell