I think you will not only need a motherboard that supports 48 bit LBA
addressing but also XP Service Pack 1 (Home or Pro) or later to fully utilise
your hard disk.

See MS KB 303013 - "How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for
ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=303013).
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP



livego wrote:

the message show "ATA disk drivers ship with windows do not support
drives greater than 137GB", Should I change the mainboard or th O.S.?
Please help me