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  1. January 16th, 2005, 08:50 PM #11
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    Firstly, thank you for your patience and perseverance

    I think that this might be the answer:

    Please Note: In order to properly access the full capacity of an ATA interface hard drive or partition larger than 137GB and properly support 48-bit logical block addressing, Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are required. This issue does not affect SCSI hard drives.
    Have you updated your Windows, as that seems to be where the problem is? You need Service Pack 4

    Cheers

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  2. January 16th, 2005, 09:05 PM #12
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    I have updated it and it is at service pack 4. It still hasn't found the rest of it.
    Thanks again for your help.
    The only four things i need are food, water, a computer, and the internet.
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  3. January 16th, 2005, 09:53 PM #13
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    I dont know if you thought it was fixed because of the way i said it earlyer, but I have had service pack 4 the entire time and it is still only finding 128 gb of my hard drive. Should I apply that patch from the motherboard web site or somewhere else?
    The only four things i need are food, water, a computer, and the internet.
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  4. January 16th, 2005, 10:03 PM #14
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    OK, go here:

    http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n

    And get Western Digital's Data lifeguard installation and diagnostics tools.

    See if they help

    Also get Belarc Advisor and run it. Down the bottom on the left you should see your Windows updates and IF THEY WORKED ..................the MS update site does not do that.
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  5. January 17th, 2005, 12:11 AM #15
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    Alright, cool. Those two programs worked.
    Thanks alot.
    The only four things i need are food, water, a computer, and the internet.
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  6. January 17th, 2005, 12:16 AM #16
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    Glad to hear you got it fixed mate!.................sorry it took so long, but we got there in the end?

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