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== 500gb SATA drive that shows up as 127gb ==== Larger SATA drive that shows up as only 127gb ==Before performing any troubleshooting with large capacity drives in Windows 2000, confirm that you have Service Pack 3 or higher.START -> RUN -> compmgmt.msc:1 Check to make sure you have SP3 or higher, SP4 is recommended for Windows 2000:2 Any motherboard that has SATA it is likely the bios also detects the full disk size up to 1TB:3 If SP level is correct, The OS will have to be updated to enable LBA by a registry edit.:: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098:: KB Article ID : 305098 ::a You must enable the support in the Windows registry by adding or changing the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters 1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). 2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters 3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value: Value name: EnableBigLba Data type: REG_DWORD Value data: 0x1 :4 Restart the installation with the appropriately patched operating system.::a For a boot drive::::You may use a 3rd party "partition stretch utility.":::You may also create a 2nd partition on the boot drive with Windows Disk Management, to have more than one partition on the drive.::b For a non-boot drive you can use compmgmt.msc and resize the disk.When you install a SATA disk larger than 127GB, such as a 250GB, 320GB, 500GB or larger, you will notice that when you put Windows 2000 on the drive the installer will only see 127GB. That's okay for now, go ahead and install Windows 2000. Once the operating system is installed, you need to apply the latest service pack, which is at least SP4 for Win2K. After that make the registry edit described above. If you do not wish to create a second partition to use the now available remainder of the hard drive, then you need a disk utility to resize the boot partition.The '''[http://gpartedclonz.tuxfamily.org/index.php gparted / clonezilla version 2.3 bootable CD]''' has been verified to work on resizing the boot partition of a sata drive greater than 127GB with a Windows 2000 NTFS partition. [[Category:Windows]][[Category:Windows XP]]