How do I enable an HD Larger than 132G on Windows XP?

Question

I just installed a 250G Hard Drive and Windows XP won't recognize it is that size.

Answer 1

Motherboard that has support for 48-bit LBA and Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher.

Answer 2

XP does not have a problem with a drive that size, so it is either incorrectly labeled or you have it partitioned incorrectly.

1. Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
3. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view. To customize how you view your disks and volumes in the upper and lower panes of the window, point to Top or Bottom on the View menu, and then click the view that you want to use.

The you should be able to see how big the drive really is, and you can change partion sizes, etc.

Answer 3

Windows XP does support drives of tat size, make sure that it is partitioned in NTFS because there are more size limitations with the fat file system, ntfs will support a 250gb drive

Answer 4

put partitions in it with a start disk or find a partition program that can do it. you might find something on
www.tucows.com Go to tucows.com and type in partition manager, there will be a list to look through, but I sugest using the freeware first. There is one called Super Fdisk, try it

Answer 5

Install SP2. It includes 48bit LBA.

Answer 6

You have to partition it. My HD came with a utility that did it for me. Check your manufacturers website.

Answer 7

you need to get a Ultra ATA/133 IDE PCI Card for it.

I have a few 250gb drives and that's the only way my comp recognised them