Hard drive says its 131 gigs.

[ver00]

I tried using the search but I couldn't find anything.

So anyways yea I got a new hard drive today and I was going to format it at get it running and it said it was a 131 something gig hard drive. Its a Maxtor 200 Gig 7200 rpm HD that I got at Office Depot for a rather good price, I thought so any way.

So anyway I know about this 137 thing sorta but what I don't get is what if I don't got a win xp cd with sp1 already on it. I have a sp1 disk but its an update disk not in with the installation. Gotta do it seperate. So anyway what exactly am I suppose to do. Is there any way to get it to recognize itself?

 

[anthrax]

I think the following will save you.. Could some one please verifly.

1: Install it into a small <137GB disk partition first....
2: Install windows SP1
3: Use Windows XP Pro disk management to cover the basic disk into dynamic disk
4: Expand the dynamic disk to fill up the 200GB

 

[ver00]

I understand steps 1 and 2 and sorta 3 but other that that I don't really know what you mean

 

[BurntCpu]

why not use the max blast disk
that came with the drive?

 

[ver00]

So do you mean to go ahead and format that 131 gigs and get windows running and then install SP1 and then go into the disk management and do what exactly. I know I can format and partition from there but how would I do that, I mean wouldn't it delete the windows installation if i formatted it or whatever it is im suppose to do so that it would recognize that its a 200 gig HD. Or is there like an option to like make it check the HD and look for more space or something like that?

 

[ver00]

Yes it came with the hard drive, but how would I use that? I don't got windows installed on the drive yet. Or do you mean like going ahead and formatting and installing windows on the current 131 gigs and then using the disk which Im assuming has some sort of tool that will make it recognize that its 200 gigs?

 

[ver00]

Question


I have a drive that is larger than 137 GB but the operating system only recognizes 128 GB or 137 GB. How can I fix this?
Answer
Problem
The full capacity of ATA drives larger than 137GB is not recognized by the operating system.

Solution
Currently, there are three options to remedy the 137 Gigabyte barrier. Failure to implement one of the following installation options will result in data loss when trying to access the hard disk beyond 137 Gigabytes.

Installation Option 1. Upgrade the operating system to either Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 (or newer) or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (or newer) and download the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler software patch. The Maxtor Big Drive Enabler, once executed, will update the Windows registry for large drive support.

Installation Option 2. Download and install the Intel Application accelerator. The Intel Application Accelerator provides 48-Bit LBA compliant ATA/ATAPI controller drivers (IntelATA.mpd) and replaces the Windows 98/Me, 2000 and XP ATA controller drivers (ESDI_506.PDR). Intel is the only chipset manufacturer that we are aware of that offers a compatible controller driver for Windows .

The Intel Application Accelerator only supports the following chipsets: 810, 810E, 810E2, 810L, 815, 815EP, 815G, 815EG, 815P, 820, 820E, 840, 845, 845E, 845G, 845GE, 845GL, 845GV, 845PE, 850, 850E, 860. The Intel Application Accelerator can be obtained at http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/. If you have an unsupported chipset or do not want to upgrade the operating system then try the next solution.

Installation Option 3: Attach the large hard drive to an add-in Ultra ATA PCI adapter card with a 48-Bit LBA compliant BIOS and controller driver. The adapter card bypasses the system BIOS and operating system?s controller driver and uses its own BIOS and controller driver.

Using an IDE ATA/ATAPI controller that has a 48-Bit LBA compatible controller driver will allow safe use of large drives beyond the previous limits of 137 GB capacity. Additional controllers that do not have 48-Bit compliant drivers cannot safely access drives larger than 137 GB. A compatible card such as the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI for Windows and Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 PCI Card for MACs can be purchased at http://www.maxstore.com (U.S. only) or at a local retailer.


Would that first step work by going ahead and installing windows on the 131 gigs and then update to SP1 and then run that program they have listed that says will update the windows registry to recognize it?

 

[ver00]

A simple yes or no pretty please, Its rather late and im getting tired.

 

[anthrax]

I think it will work, but I can't give guarantees on this solution...
I have got it to work on 2003 server before...but I can be soo sure on win xp pro..


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309044&sd=tech


Okay, just checked the MS website... If you plan to be using mutiple disk volumes, the above approach will work.. However, the size of your drive C: will Fixed to what ever size you first formated it to be in step 1. (i.e. limited to less than 137GB) .....

If you want to say have the following setip c: 50GB , d:150 GB......you can use the above method..follow the steps described below

1: Install windows..
2: Size c: to 50 GB and install windows XP..
3: Install SP1
4: Use the Disk Management tool to convert the basic disk to dynamic disk.
5: You can do what ever you want with the other 150GB of disk space....make it a big parition, split it up...span it accross mulitple drive...what ever...BUT you will still not be able to change the size of your C: (boot volume)

 

[ver00]

Installation Option 1. Upgrade the operating system to either Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 (or newer) or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (or newer) and download the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler software patch. The Maxtor Big Drive Enabler, once executed, will update the Windows registry for large drive support.

Wouldn't using this software just do the same thing?

 

[ver00]

Ok I gotcha, thanx for the help man.

 

[ver00]

Oh crap, I had already started the formatting with c: set for the whole 131 gigs that it was showing. Is it bad to stop the formatting and restart and then format it again. Its currently at about 55% done formatting. Because what I wanted to do to begin with was make 4 50 gig partitions.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: ver00
Oh crap, I had already started the formatting with c: set for the whole 131 gigs that it was showing. Is it bad to stop the formatting and restart and then format it again. Its currently at about 55% done formatting. Because what I wanted to do to begin with was make 4 50 gig partitions.

I'm pretty sure you can do that without problems.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Could have just slipstreamed XP with SP2.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Could have just slipstreamed XP with SP2.

:thumbsup:


yes that would be best,next time you format it will make things much simpler.

 

[Trente]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Could have just slipstreamed XP with SP2.

:thumbsup:


yes that's would be best,next time you format it will make things much simpler.

Agreed.

 

[LukFilm]

Link for slipstreaming?

 

[Koing]

Have you got hte LATEST BIOS for your motherboard?

Koing

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: LukFilm
Link for slipstreaming?

I used this one Ther are a ton of guides though if you google it

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Koing
Have you got hte LATEST BIOS for your motherboard?

Koing

Seagate covers the whole thing pretty well, worth the read Brudda Text

 

[Arcanedeath]

Just slipstream service pack 1 or 2 into XP and then you should be able to see the full capasity of the drive when you install windows. The other option is to just make 1 small partishion like 20-50GB and then load SP 1 or 2 and use WinXP's diskmanager to partishion and format the rest.

 

[ver00]

I got it working fine, thanx for the info guys. Didn't get to bed till 6 AM but hey I still got it done.