The problem of not having problem

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Hi I have a problem. Hope you could help!

It's actually my machine's problem. I bought a new system with a WD SATA 200G HD & ASUS P5GD1 motherboard. I am running win2k. Everywhere I was told that when I am using win2k without sp4 and if I have a HD larger than 137G, I will only see 137G when doing formatting. I have to install sp4, enable the large disk bit in the windows registry to see the entire disk.

Here is the problem:

When I was doing a clean install of win2k, I was able to partition and format the entire HD. Both the disk properties and disk management report single partition with 186GB. I am sure I don't have a win2k service pack installed. I don't see the large drive enabled in the registry. Why I am not getting the problem that everyone seems to have? Would win2k report the "wrong" size? Should I just follow the mass and split the drive into 2 smaller partitions? I am very confused!
 
If your OS shows the size correctly than it may be that your version of Win2k has been slipstreamed with SP4 so it will be installed during a clean install.
 
I don't think my win2k comes with sp4. It was a very old CD, at least 3 year old. I don't think sp4 was out 3 years ago. In fact after I installed the OS, it shows no service pack installed after the version/build info.
 
If win2k works then install the service pack to make sure it doesn't go wrong and to fix some security issues.
 
Can the Disk Properties report wrong size? Is there a software I can use to test if the size reported is indeed the right size? Thanks!
 
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