Hard drive reads half

[niceguyca]

i have a p3 500 and just got a 250 gig hard drive but only reads 120 gig just wonder if i have to flash or have to flash bios

 

[tipstir]

Might have a BIOS limit LBA? You might have to partition that drive as two 120GBs instead.. Is this going to be the MASTER with OS/Programs or SLAVE?

 

[DelJo63]

good call tipstir.

fyi: there's a limit on HD sizes that can be read easily ... < 137 GB.

to go bigger than that, yoiu need TWO changes:
1) the bios must be set to support LBA and
2) there's an MS article on the registry fix

 

[Quantex_rox]

On my p3 667, i got 2 80 gigs for it, and it only saw them as 32 in the bios, and as 80 gig in WinXP, so i flashed the bios, and now it sees them as full 80 gigs in the bios and in windows.