Hmm, odd you didn't mention any service packs for XP like SP1 or SP2.

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Jonny
<sarmadgilani@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've got an old MSI Gateway-OEM motherboard (MS-6330) that doesn't
> support 48-bit LBA with its latest BIOS revision, so my Western Digital
> 250GB drive shows up as 137GB in BIOS, as expected.
>
> But, in Windows, Disk Management shows it as the full 232 GB, and I'm
> able to create >137GB partitions, format, and use them.
>
> Is this safe to use without messing with drive overlays? I'm not going
> to boot from the drive, it'll be used for storage only.
>
> Thanks!
>