GaryK

I added a primary slave 250GB hard drive to a machine thats running win2k. BIOS sees it fine however windows doesnt, it just doesnt appear in computer management->storage at all, what am I missing?

BlkKnight

It's a windows / Hardware issue.

Check for the latest MOBO BIOS.

Update Drivers for IDE.

InvisibleMan

wasnt there something about W2K not seeing extra large HDs or was that just m/boards'n'bios'? Does the bios detect the full 250Gb? you had to manually enter it in, extended bootscan or somethink or was that just old skool stuff??

Mogsi

What service pack is your Win2K. I believe that support for drives over 130GB was added into Service Pack 3....

jpor

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Worth getting and installing Service Pack 4.

Kieran_Burns

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it's larger than 137Gb - http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;305098

should explain everything

jpor

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SYMPTOMS
Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and earlier versions of Windows 2000 do not support 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) as defined in the ATA/ATAPI 6.0 specification.

In other words install Service pack 3 or 4 and then windows will see your Hard Disk.

GaryK

OK thanks guys, I was running SP3 and installed SP4 but it still doesnt show, no the BIOS is reporting it as 136GB or something like that.

Gary

InvisibleMan

ah so thats right then the m/b bios also cant see larger than that 136Gb limit. m/b bios needs upgrading assuming it can take it. What is the m/board?

Kieran_Burns

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Yeah, I'd be looking at flashing the BIOS next... get that sorted and see where you go from there

mannyo

Control Panel > admin tools > computer management then click on disk administrator and it should show up in there.

GaryK

OK thanks guys, its an abit board so I will flash the BIOS and then try it, if all else fails I'll just stick it in USB external HD case and that should work!