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48-Bit LBA Question

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I have a computer with Windows Xp Professional and I bought myself a new 250 Gig Hard drive. At first it did not recognize the 250 (Only 131 or something like that) So I read the sticky in this forum and I saw that you can change a value in the registry and it would recognize it.

For the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional, you can enable 48-bit LBA for testing purposes. To do this, set the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters\
Warning Data corruption may occur if either of the following conditions is true:• You use this registry value to enable 48-bit LBA support in the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional.
• You install an earlier version of Windows on a disk partition that was previously created by a 48-bit aware operating system, such as Windows XP SP1. And that disk partition is equal to or larger than the current addressable limit of 137 GB.
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Now I don't have SP1 or SP2 (Nor is it an option to get it) but so far the drive is recognizable at 232 GB using the Registry change.

My question is, is it going to be fine running like this? Or am I going to run into problems?
 
You always lose size, drive size is not actuall size in MB as advertised. You're fine, nothing unusual there.
 
I'm not asking about that, I already knew that I was going to lose some space, but my question is that am I fine running 48 Bit LBA on Windows XP without any Service Packs?
 
ah, well, if you're not haveing an issues with data corrpution, crashing, etc, you should be ok.
 
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