Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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At 02:04 PM 12/27/2006, Anthony Q. Martin typed:
>What's confusing is that upon the initial build of this computer I
>didn't have that SR2 version of WinXP. Yet, both drives formatted
>out at full capacity.
>
>Who knows?
:Didn't you
7 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] WD 180G => 127G
IIRC, XP-SP1 had the limitation of 127G
and XP-SP2 broke that barrier... 48bit LBA
(Note there are different measurement types
and the numbers might look "different"...)
http://www.48bitlba.com/
It could also be the
o problems.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier(Gmail)
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:57 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] WD 180G => 127G
IIRC, XP-SP1 had the limitation of 127G
and XP-SP2 broke that barrier... 48bit LBA
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IIRC, XP-SP1 had the limitation of 127G
and XP-SP2 broke that barrier... 48bit LBA
(Note there are different measurement types
and the numbers might look "different"...)
http://www.48bitlba.com/
It could also be the BIOS if this done in different machines...
At 03:28 PM 22/12/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I think there is something wrong with that HD that formats to 127 GB
when it should be 180. There are no other partitions on it, BTW.
It sounds like a BIOS limitation. Not sure why it would work with
the other drive, though. Have you tried We
Try wiping the disk with something like AutoClav, or even WDs write
zero utility. Then try again.
At 11:28 AM 12/22/2006, you wrote:
This is strange...
I've been having problems for a long time on this one PC of mine...
Finally, I decide to reformat/reinstall...
Initially, I had this PC set
This is strange...
I've been having problems for a long time on this one PC of mine...
Finally, I decide to reformat/reinstall...
Initially, I had this PC setup with 2 WD 180GB drives in a mirror configuration
This time, I decided to break that and just use both HDs as normal hard drives.
Afte
