installl SP2 (IIRC) to see the additional drive space and format it.

48 bit LBA support was introduced with XP SP1 and W2K SP3.
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Galen wrote:

This is ME not MCE for the record. As you said the BIOS sees it,
installl SP2 (IIRC) to see the additional drive space and format it.

See also:

How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI ...:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3B303013