BIOS Question- 1 TB HDD only shows 127GB


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dvalentin

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23. July 2009 @ 00:17

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Any suggestions appreciated

I have a ECS 915P-A2 Motherboard, 2GB DDR RAM, P4 3.2 GHZ CPU and AMI BIOS
Problem: System will only show 127GB capacity limit for my 1 Terabyte HDD. I have tried swapping to a 250GB HDD and a 500GB HDD seperately and I am still limited to 127GB's.

I emailed ECSUSA for support on updating the BIOS since they only have 2 versions for my board and the update description says nothing about Hard Drive capacity. They copy pasted the BIOS page that I had already read and totally ignored my root question.

Does anyone have any suggestions?? Thanks in advance.

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djscoop

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23. July 2009 @ 02:15

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what OS are you running, and what service pack of the OS is installed? if you have XP with SP1 or earlier, you have to install a update for windows to recognize drives over 127 GB

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blivetNC

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23. July 2009 @ 02:29

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I had the same problem installing Windows XP home with SP1. Upgraded to SP2 install disk then the entire 500 Gbyte drive was able to format.

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ddp

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23. July 2009 @ 15:37

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xp without any service pack causes that problem. use that 127gig partition for windows & make the rest as a new partition for games or whatever.

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dvalentin

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24. July 2009 @ 02:53

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Thanks alot guys for your help.
I am using WIN XP Professional V. 2002 with SP3 installed.

Where at microsoft.com could I find a patch in order for the OS to recognize the full capacity of my hard drive?

Again..THANK YOU for all your help.

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ddp

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24. July 2009 @ 16:43

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is sp3 part of the disk or an add-on? check check ecs site to see if there is a bios update for your motherboard.

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pcdoc1

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24. July 2009 @ 18:18

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Try Maxtor big drive enabler. It works on all drives.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/Maxtor-Big-...gram_18921.html