whole HDD (ide hard disk) not recognized?

Question

I have a PC which was working fine with a 40 GB hard disk and winXP on it. I upgraded the hard disk to 400GB now and when setting up a fresh copy of XP on the machine it did not recognize more than 130GB of the disk . although XP was successfully installed and functioned I dont have access to 270GB of my hard disk. any body knows the reason ?

I can not see the rest of the disk even when I :
right click on c: drive >> manage >> disk management ..

:)

Answer 1

Hi,



This section we will look at ways of achieving large hard drive support. That is hard drives larger than 137 GB (Gigabytes). To achieve this requires 48 bit LBA support from the operating system and from your computers BIOS. We will cover all operating system from Windows 98 and above that have this problem.



What is LBA ? LBA stands for Logical Block address. This was originally only 24 bits for ATA/ATAPI devices, which meant that the largest hard drive you could use was 137.4 GB (Gigabytes). Now that hard drives have increased beyond this size changes where needed. So came along 48 bit LBA. This has increased the maximum size of hard drives to 144,000,000 gigabytes.



http://www.largeharddrivesupport.windowsreinstall.com/



Arnak

Answer 2

Your question is a splash complicated to answer yet i'd leave the previous force out of the equation for now. deploy the sata drives and in the journey that your bios facilitates set the DvD force because of the fact the 1st force and the recent annoying force to 2nd and set the boot order besides from the DvD force first and the annoying force 2nd. If installation abode windows XP you will need the raid drivers out of your laptop or motherboard producer as XP has no concept what a sata force is. If the laptop has a floppy force you are able to deploy the drivers to a floppy disk and deploy them whilst the abode windows deploy asks for third occasion drivers. A cd will paintings additionally. as quickly as abode windows is put in and dealing you are able to deploy the previous 15 gig force on the IDE cable. once you reboot the force would desire to be detected. you are able to reproduction the archives you % for the duration of the My laptop icon (despite the force letter assigned to it) as i think of that's the least confusing way. If each thing works the way it might the completed technique would desire to be basic. With desktops you in no way understand despite the fact that.

Answer 3

May be you need 64-bit Windows XP.