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BillyBoy wrote on 3/28/2005, 6:32 AM
If you already have a jumbo drive connected to this MB (200GB or larger) I don't see any problem. The problems were for much smaller drives on boards will older BIOS. If I remember right the last hurdle to jump over was 137GB. So if a 150-200GB drive works already shouldn't have any issue with drives ranging to 450-500GB (about as big as you can get now) I think (trying to remember, so could be wrong) Windows is set up to handle 2,000GB or larger, can't recall, but nobody has them that big...yet.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/30/2005, 3:08 AM

The 320GB drive was installed. The motherboard (ASUS) recognized it without any problems. However, Windows XP Pro didn't. It saw the hdd as only having 127GB!

To make a long story short, I had to wind up installing the Service Pack 2. After that and some minor "Disk Management" it recognized it without any further problems.

The disappointment was how much space the formatting took. The 320GB drive, after formatting, has 298 GB of space. Not knowing any more than I do about these things, 22GBs seems like an awful lot of space to take up with formatting.


TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/30/2005, 6:12 AM
I have an Asus A8V (basicly, their latest non-PCIE mb), and even though it supports HD'a above 127gb, no windows OS supports them w/o tweeking. :(

I have a 160gb that I've lost everything on.. TWICE because windows 2k can't properly work with it without drivers installed, and setup, and all this doen with the drive in the computer. :(

Damn annoying, especially considering Mb's have supported huge drives for a relatively long time.
BillyBoy wrote on 3/30/2005, 6:24 AM
It isn't the formatting, its the difference between how Windows counts bytes and the "formula" drive manufacturers use.

I'll use one of my drives for an example.

My E drive is is Seagate 250 GB. Windows "sees" it as a 233 GB drive. On the surface you would think you lost a lot of space once formatted. Nope. You've lost some space due to formatting of course, but not much.

Try this: Right click on your hard drive from Windows' Explorer...In the My Computer folder select properties.

Again in my example Windows reports this drive's CAPACITY as 250,994,384,896 bytes or actually a littler more than the rounded out 250 GB Seagate markets this drive as. The difference here is using 1,000 bytes to represent every thousand, while the actual is 1,024 bytes. So in a jumbo drive this differnce actually means a 250 GB drive actually holds nearly a billion more bytes.