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I have a regular IDE Western Digital Hard drive that has a capacity of 250 GB. I have installed in as a slave in my XP Pro system. I see the drive but only set up to 128 GB? In the CMOS I see the drive and it shows that it is 250 GB. I tought Windows XP could see up to a teribyte ?

Any ideas ?

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Hello!

You need to install SP1 (Service Pack 1) in order to use a drive larger than 128GB. Install at least SP1 and Windows XP will see the entire drive.

SP1 Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/default.mspx

Explanation: How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013

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