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holhouse

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March 2nd, 2004 21:00

Enabling large USB hard drive

From what I read I need a 48 bit enabled bios to be able to use all of a  >137 GB hard drive.  I have a power edge 2600 running Win2000 SP 3.  I installed a USB 2.0 card and can only read 128 GB.  Anyone have any suggestion

theJapester

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March 5th, 2004 01:00

The 48-Bit LBA support in Windows 2000 wasn't properly fixed until SP 3, and even then you needed to fix a registry setting:

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000

Not sure if this related to external USB drives, but it'd be worth a shot.  If it does fix the problem I'd be very careful what other PCs/operating systems I connected to the drive with.

holhouse

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March 5th, 2004 12:00

Thanks, I installed SP4 and hacked the registry according to MS - still no luck.  I found a driver that is needed from MS for the NEC USB 2.0 card.  That didn't help.  The only thing left to do is install the drivers that came with the USB 2.0 enclosure and I am not sure I want to do that - never heard of the company so I can't find any info on the software. 

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