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Mike M had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

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

48 bit LBA support was introduced with XP SP1 and W2K SP3.

Most excellent. I'm glad someone remembers these things. The sad thing is by
the time someone comes around with a question on this again I will have
forgotten which service pack addressed the LBA issue. Now it makes me
curious. (I always partition various drives as a general rule.) What do ME
users who want it to be a single non-partitioned drive need to do beyond
updating BIOS if applicable? I took a look he
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm I didn't see a "fix" for it there really,
only the idea of just partitioning it.

Galen
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"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes