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Old February 16th, 2004, 08:46 AM
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Question windows 2000 not recognizing proper HD size
Hello,

my previous WD HD failed, and got a replacement from Dell today, a 250 GB one. Even though my BIOS is quite happy to acknowledge that it's 250, my windows 2k isn't, nor is the fdisk from my diagnostics boot cd or my partition magic. They all claim it's 127 GB, and as such I can only create a 127 GB partition of of it. Does anyone know about this kind of problem or even a solution to it?
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You need software to fully recon the hd capacity windows only recognizes partions up to 127gb.
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Hello,

my previous WD HD failed, and got a replacement from Dell today, a 250 GB one. Even though my BIOS is quite happy to acknowledge that it's 250, my windows 2k isn't, nor is the fdisk from my diagnostics boot cd or my partition magic. They all claim it's 127 GB, and as such I can only create a 127 GB partition of of it. Does anyone know about this kind of problem or even a solution to it?


I can reccomend you to install an Intel Application Accelerator, if you are using an intal motherbaord in your PC. Also I recomend you to install SP4 on your win2k.
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You need software to fully recon the hd capacity windows only recognizes partions up to 127gb.


I know it's a late reply, but thanks

It's not a piece of software, but a simple change of the registry that was needed, it's all up and working now.

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You need software to fully recon the hd capacity windows only recognizes partions up to 127gb.

Bull****.

Win2k/XP/Win2003 w/NTFS all recognize partitions sizes up to 1 Terrabyte.
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Win2k/XP/Win2003 w/NTFS all recognize partitions sizes up to 1 Terrabyte


It clearly states so on the manual for my maxtor h.d. that windows will only recon up to 128gb h.d. space and which is why they provided the maxblast software to recongnize the partition size. I do not think that maxtor will lie will they. http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/do...s/maxblast3.htm

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MaxBlast 3 Features


Creates a bootable MaxBlast 3 installation diskette.

Compatible with Windows 95, 95B, 98, Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

*Breaks the 528 MB, 2.1 GB, 4.2 GB, 8.4 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB and 137 GB capacity barriers.*

Support both FAT32 and NTFS drive partitions.

Easy to use, Graphical Interface (GUI) with mouse and printer support.

Supports up to four ATA devices in the same system*.

The copy feature lets you make an exact duplicate of your existing hard drive.

Fast ATA and Serial ATA compatible.

The installation tutorial option allows you to view the installation process before physically installing your Maxtor ATA hard drive.


It appears that the updated version of maxblast now supports up to 137gb of disk space.
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It clearly states so on the manual for my maxtor h.d. that windows will only recon up to 128gb h.d. space and which is why they provided the maxblast software to recongnize the partition size. I do not think that maxtor will lie will they. URL



It appears that the updated version of maxblast now supports up to 137gb of disk space.


I think the MAXBLAST software automatically applies the registry changes I had to make by hand.

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GreyCouncil obviously doesn't seem to know what he's talking about, so I'd just ignore him.
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I think the MAXBLAST software automatically applies the registry changes I had to make by hand.

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/d...37_win2000.html


I don't know what it does but when I was using my old p.c. I had to install the maxblast software before installing windows.
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Well, according to MS, the NTFS file system supports partitions sizes up to 1 Terrabyte.
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...=kb;en-us;93496

Actually, it looks like the largest size is 16 Exabytes - but no one has built a drive that large....yet
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The government probably has those size drives they wil not release it to the public though it was the same thing that they did with the 64bit cpu's and zeons.
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