cesjr Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I have been able to get OS X (myzar iso) running on my PC. I was having a problem where my new Maxtor 300gb drive was showing up as a 128gb drive in disk utility. Seems a few other people here have had that problem. Finally last night I took the drive out of the PC, put it in a external firewire drive housing and connected it to one of my macs. Partitioned the drive 3 ways (like this site says should be done for a triple boot system with XP and linux). I set partition 2 (for the mac) at 220gb. Put the drive back into the PC, booted off the myzar iso and low and behold I've now got a 220 gb drive showing up to install OS X onto. Just wanted to share this workaround. You need a mac for it, but any will do (notebook, desktop). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16538-way-around-128gb-drive-capacity-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I suspect WinXP SP2 would do, too. The problem is to do with LBA (Large Block Addressing), which in WinXP prior to SP2, and in various other OSes is limited to a 64-bit addressing space, limiting addressable disk space to 128Gb. LBA enables 128-bit addressing, upping the limit to several terabytes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16538-way-around-128gb-drive-capacity-problem/#findComment-106529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo50 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 i have the same problem on my seagate 200 gb. it's shown 128 gb too. but this is not with LBa , the problem is with the ata driver. i have aTI x 200 chipset mobo and when i apply a coorect kext for my mobo, everything goes fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16538-way-around-128gb-drive-capacity-problem/#findComment-106963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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