500GB HHD only seen as 128GB -Win2k

[L6Griffin]

I just installed a 500GB WD5000AAKS Sata drive Win2K Pro only sees it as a 128GB drive. Win2K has all the updates, the ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus mother board has the latest BIOS. The BIOS sees it as 500GB Sata drive, on sata1. Checking Device Manager it says it's a standard drive. I'd like to partition all 500GB as a primary partition. What do I need to do?

Thanks,
Larry

 

[dustin_ds3000]

well i know xp fresh installment wont see anything above 128 gig untill you instill sp2

 

[L6Griffin]

I was planning to upgrade to XP 64, guess I'll just have to move it a little higher in the priorities. I bought two identical drives, Linux say the other one no problem.

Thanks,
Larry

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Even if you have the latest updates for Win2k, it may not have the 48-bit LBA support enabled needed for >128 GB access.

http://www.48bitlba.com/win2k.htm

 

[L6Griffin]

Thanks for the info. I looked at the link, and the mod to the registry would get me four partitions, but I don't think I want to go that route. I'll use it as a tmp directory till I can upgrade to XP 64.

Larry