WD1600 Hard disk error - please help.

[The_Lamb]

Hi, I have a MSI 845Pro motherboard with an Intel P4 1.5GHz processor.

I recently tried to upgrade the Hard disk to give it more space. I bought a WD1600 (Western digital 160GB) drive and installed it. When I went into the bios it was recognising it as a 137GB drive. I updated the Bios and this has made no difference.

The drive is recognised correctly on all of my other PCs.

Any idea what is going wrong?

[Kharzon]

Try using the western digital CD that came with the HD to set the HD up? I know mine came with one...

[StinkyMojo]

no, its because the max pre sp1 machines recognize is 137GB... some registry addressing problem or something.. i don't remember the exact issue. anyways update to AT LEAST sp1 and It should be fixed.

[Uranium-235]

Your bios, Operating system, has to support 48-bit addressing for hard drives. Not only that, but Windows by default has it turned off, and yes, 48-bit addressing is only supported by Windows XP SP1 and higher, and Windows 2000 SP2 and higher, and from what I can tell, no way to enable it under Windows98 and lower

Enabling 48-bit addressing for Windows 2000 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/)

Enabling 48-bit addressing for Windows XP (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013)

[Dragon]

i had the same problem. go into your administrative tools > computer management > storage > disk management and the rest of your drive will show up as an unpartitioned, unformatted sapce. right click, and format ntfs. its about 21 gb if i remember correctly.