why only 136gb?

diduknowthat

diduknowthat

formerly liuliuboy
i just installed the 160gb sata drive onto my computer. When i booted up and installed the drivers and stuff it says that the drive can be a maximum of 136gigs. How could i utilize the other 24gigs?
 
for windows 2000 you need sp4 installed it wont work after you already install pre sp4 2000 on the hard disk so you'll need to reformat and reinstall if you want to use all the space.
 
if your win2k is not sp4 you'll need to slipstream them or do that registry thing from ms site and then install the os on that hdd.
 
yea, but i dont see too many people using that many gigs...
i mean if you do networking or video things, ya id expect it.
or if you dont uninstall thos games you never play anymore.

imo, 24gigs isnt enough to worry about.
unless you only have 80 or less gig hdd
 
Yea ok that makes sense, i did that registry thing from Ms website, ill get around to reformating, i am kinda of tired of doing it because i have done it 2 times this week already. Yea, 24 gigs isnt too much to worry about i was just wondering though...
 
Motoxrdude said:
Yea i have the same problem but i have windows 2000, have any ideas?
Click to expand...

This must be the case. I will do as it says in the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 305098 because it states:

Important Although support for 48-bit LBA is included in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and later, it is still necessary to create the registry change that is described in the "Resolution" section of this article.

That resolution is:

The following conditions are necessary for the correct functioning of 48-bit LBA ATAPI support:
A computer with a 48-bit LBA-compatible Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) installed.
A computer with a hard disk that has a capacity of greater than 137 gigabytes (GB).
You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters

To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:
1 Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2 Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters

3 On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1

4 Quit Registry Editor.
 
I believe all you have to do is partition the drive and you can utilize all the space. I did that with an ME install and a 160gb drive, split it in half and recognized all of it.
 
I saw this when I first installed, but I made only a 30 gig partition for C

Then installed, and sp1, then sp2.

Then went back into disk management and created the other drive.

I got 152 out of my 160, so I think I got all I can use this way.
 
suprasteve said:
I believe all you have to do is partition the drive and you can utilize all the space. I did that with an ME install and a 160gb drive, split it in half and recognized all of it.
Click to expand...

I suppose that would be the quickest option to do... Just have like one partition of 130GB and the other as a 30GB one. Heck that might be better so you can use the 30GB one for backup, etc...
 
yeah making multiple partition is the easy way but you would want to make them the size that you wanted and you dont wanna go 137 137 137 if you have a 400-500gb hdd.
 
When you install XP from the CD, select create partition on this drive.

Give it a size, like 30gb.

DON'T create the other yet. Just leave it unused.

Install XP, SP1, SP2.

Then go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk manager.

There, it will let you create the other drive.

You prolly gotta swap the letters around a bit; should be no big deal.

This gives me a 30gb drive for system files n programs, and 130gb on the other for games, music, web work, patches, downloads, etc.

Then if you gotta reinstall over the C, you still have all that other stuff safe on the big drive.
 
I believe so. The computer management is the same.

Havn't done an 'install' in a while.

Some notes.

You can have FAT32 drives over 30gb. But, Microsoft induced a limit for XP and WIN2K that allow only 30.

Anything higher, it wants to use NTFS.

From my experience.....

FAT32 way better and more stable for the BOOT drive.
NTFS way better and more stable for the STORAGE drive.

Everytime I use NTFS on the boot drive? Blue screens of death twice a week.

So I went:

30GB FAT32 - System drive
130GB NTFS - Storage drive.

NOW. If your XP instal saavy, some of my tech friends know how to overide the XP limit of 30gb for FAT32. But personally, I do not know how.

Or, you can just do something really gay like....
30GB/30GB/30GB/30GB/30GB

But I certainly don't want all those drives.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top