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Joined Jun 8, Messages Ok so I have a question that I didn't see an answer to. But I ran into the limit even though the bios says I'm pretty sure the bios had no problem seeing the entire drive but my rather old copy of XP does. My XP CD is pretty old. Can I perform this from a secondary HD? Thanks all, Ty. Farva Extremely [H].

Joined Feb 3, Messages 38, Tly said:. RyanVM Limp Gawd. Joined Jun 4, Messages SP2 is a cumulative update. It can be directly slipstreamed without SP1 being present first. Many thanks to both of you. Getting it all squared away very soon. Before performing any troubleshooting with large capacity drives in Windows , confirm that you have Service Pack 3 or higher.

That's okay for now, go ahead and install Windows Once the operating system is installed, you need to apply the latest service pack, which is at least SP4 for Win2K.

After that make the registry edit described above. If you do not wish to create a second partition to use the now available remainder of the hard drive, then you need a disk utility to resize the boot partition.

Should be a sticky Tedster said:. Click to expand The Maxtor Big Drive Enabler, once executed, will update the Windows registry for large drive support.

I did it, it works The ability to see only gigs of a large hard drive is a limitation of the computer's BIOS. This limitation is found in motherboards which are more than a few years old, newer motherboards do not have this limitation.

In order to have the computer's BIOS see the full drive size, which will allow the software to see the full drive size, there are several options. This should upgrade the firmware to see past this limitation. You can also install a hard drive controller card. There is also software which often comes with large drives that can "trick" the motherboard to see the large drive.

I do not recommend this, or products are incompatible with this software. If you're running XP, have you installed at least Service Pack 1? Hello I just bought a seagate baracuda stas and gigabyte's ga-k8n-sli mainbord sata disk and mainboard with 4 sata slots.

Even when i use disk wizartd it only see gb and not even a byte more, i downloaded a newer bios, got a f6 version now, previous was a f4, but still it doesn't work. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback.