48 bit LBA issues

[NotDylan]

I have 3 HD's in my system now, the original 2 were 1 SATA 80g and 1 IDE 80g. Today I installed a 320g SATA and plan on moving all the files from the 80g IDE drive onto it. It's hooked up correctly and is powering on, I can actually see the HD in the device manager but I can't see it under My Computer. The drive did not come with any software so I downloaded a setup program from the WD website.

When I run the Western Digital setup disk on boot I am told than I need to enabled 48 bit LBA to use more than 137gb of the drive. I have the latest service pack for XP home, just updated my BIOS, and followed these steps here to enable 48 bit LBA. Yet, when I run the WD setup disk on boot, it still wont let me setup the drive without limiting it to 137gb. Any ideas?

[cmillar6]

if you're using XP Home with the latest service packs the registry tweak is not needed to enable 48 bit LBA. right click on my computer-->manage-->disk management, your new hdd will show up there and it will allow you to initialize, partition and format your new hdd. See if it allows you to create a partition >137GB there. If not its a bios limitation.

[NotDylan]

Originally Posted by cmillar6 if you're using XP Home with the latest service packs the registry tweak is not needed to enable 48 bit LBA. right click on my computer-->manage-->disk management, your new hdd will show up there and it will allow you to initialize, partition and format your new hdd. See if it allows you to create a partition >137GB there. If not its a bios limitation.

Aha, that's the ticket. Thanks a bunch