Hard drive space in XP

**MAVERICKS CHOICE** · December 26, 2004

Just purchased a WD 200 Gb 8mb cache drive iniatlised in windows, formatted.

However under properties it merely shows 127Gb?

I was under the impression XP had large HD support??

**tarquel** · December 26, 2004

not 100% sure here but are you running XP SP2 and have you checked the motherboard manufacturer's website for info on it?

The motherboard *may* need a BIOS update or it just might not support sizes of HD's that large.

Cant say for sure... what motherboard (exact model) is it?

Regards,

N.

**MAVERICKS CHOICE** · December 26, 2004

Gigabyte GA-81EXP approx two years old? Their site does not mention bios update for large HD support?

**Marsden** · December 28, 2004

Many have had success with loading the Intel Application Accelerator V2.3 for proper HD support.

**tarquel** · December 28, 2004

indeed - the latest mobo chipset drivers are always best installed

Cheers,

N.

**DigeratiPrime** · December 28, 2004

what model hard drive is it? Ive seen/heard of this so many times, ugh . btw is it a SATA drive?

**MAVERICKS CHOICE** · December 28, 2004

Thanks for the response guys yeah its a WD2000JB Caviar enhanced ide drive 8mb cache.

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