hard drive space not reconized

From what I've read, you need to enable 48bit addressing to read drives >
138GB. I can't tell you how, but check the Microsoft Knowledge Base.


<Chris1davie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> i have a 200gb hard drive and a 30gb in my pc my
> motherboard suports it but windows xp only says there is
> only 131gb there and no 30 gb drive please can u tell me
> how to resolve it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];303013
enable large disk.
However does yr bios correctly identify disk, if not you need to update it
Is WinXP updated?
On the assumption you have allready formatted this disk, once enable large
drive is activated you will need to reformat or create a new partion to
recover the slack
David

"Robert Tuck" <robertt@SPAMMENOT.com> wrote in message
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> From what I've read, you need to enable 48bit addressing to read drives >
> 138GB. I can't tell you how, but check the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
>
>
> <Chris1davie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:15ff01c3df8e$cf7afdc0$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> > i have a 200gb hard drive and a 30gb in my pc my
> > motherboard suports it but windows xp only says there is
> > only 131gb there and no 30 gb drive please can u tell me
> > how to resolve it

>
>