You size limitation is imposed by not having LBA (logical block
addressing). See:
<http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm>
and scroll down to "The ATA Interface Limit (128 GiB / 137 GB) Barrier"
near the bottom of the page.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013>
You might also want to read this: <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013>
The software tool referenced in this article is something available from
Microsoft that would be familiar to IT personnel managing large numbers
of systems. I understand what it says but wouldn't attempt this myself.
If you don't understand it it's time to move on to another system.
That said, you can utilize a larger drive by partitioning it into
multiple, smaller "logical" drives each of which will have their own
drive letter.
Help the economy. Buy a new system.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> John Hermanson wrote
>> My computer has eide drives, If I put in a sata drive, will that plug
>> directly into the motherboard or is there some kind of sata adapter
>> board involved?
>
> I am seriously running out of space on my Acer XP machine with a 40GB
> HDD, and it seems that the maximum that this motherboard and XP will
> recognise is 137GB. I asked a friend who services computers for
> information about EIDE and ATA.
>
> She pointed me to these articles. I am totally mystified as to what computer
> gear I should have to run one or more hard drives of 500GB and (a lot )
> more.
>
> Brian Swale
>
> She wrote:
>
> ATA is IDE:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment
>
> SATA has a different connection to the motherboard:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
>
> Some older motherboards or BIOS will not recognize any more than 137Gb
> on a Hard drive. I don't know if yours will. I guess you could check with the
> manufacturer to find out.
> There is some information and links on this site:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mosaddique/Working%20with%20Large%20
> Hard%20Drives.html
>
>
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