Hard drive barrier

[lawrenceku]

I have a WDCaviar SE 250 GB hard drive (WD2500JB) that i want to be a storage drive in windows xp along with 2 SATA Raptors (74gb)

When i look in the bios (1005) of my asus A8N-SLI Premium, it shows up as a 128gb hard drive instead of 250gb, and when i boot into windows xp (sp2 installed), it also shows as 137gb (128gb). How to i format the drive into several partitions and get the full 250gb?

thank you!

 

[firerock]

Have you used the program that came w/ your HD to formate the new harddrive? Usually that will solve the problem. I'm pretty sure your bios supports the 137gb barrier already; and your OS should do so as well (XP SP2).

 

[lawrenceku]

well, i have an oem drive, so i downloaded a utility that is "supposed to" let me format it, but it only shows 137gb as well.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Requirements for support of 48-bit LBA (Exceeding 137Gb HDD size limit):


OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or better or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or better

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Your hard drive controller must support 48bit LBA (Large Block Addressing) - check the motherboard manufacturer's website for BIOS update and/or motherboard chipset driver update that MAY add this ability.

Alternately, you can install an add-on 48bit LBA capable controller card.

 

[lawrenceku]

yes, i have seen that many times, i would expect an asus a8n-sli premium to have support though. just got it a week ago