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Uranium-235 · #11 03-07-2003, 02:33 PM

yup, external controller cards have thier own bios and addressing space.

man I can't wait to get SATA, theoretically 144,000GB.

Of course how many standard OS's can use that much?

#12 06-27-2003, 07:24 AM

I have a Maxtor 200gb and suddently it stopped to work. All partitions that I had went unallocated areas. I was unable to format or partitionate it in win2k/partiton magic som I downoaded Powermax from www.maxtor.com and formatted it with it. Now windows and parttion magic says that it is only 130gb instead of 194gb as it was earlier. And it is the same computer! Anyone know what to do?

#13 06-30-2003, 10:43 PM

The best thing to do is format your Primary Drive (C:/) first (I say about 15 GB or so).. Leave the rest as unallocated, don't format it or do anything with it at all... Once you have your OS up and running (Win 2000/XP) download all your service packs... Than use your Disk Management to partition your other drives to any letter your heart desire... At that point you'll have a total of 194-196 GB...

Keefe · #14 07-01-2003, 05:25 PM

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your problem is because of the 130 GB limitation of older IDE controllers. I believe Western Digital provides PCI IDE controllers that support drives larger than 130 GB along with their larger hard drives (I know they did on their 200 GB special edition drive, at least). They shouldn't be too expensive to pick one up on Pricewatch, or something ($20 maybe), or you might be able to get away with just partitioning your drive to sub-130 GB partitions.

vee_ess · #15 07-03-2003, 01:47 PM

Man, I thought we covered this in another topic. Just teasin. You need to upgrade your BIOS because we have been using a 28-bit address system for a long time now, which only allowed us to allocate 137GB of the hard drives. Until recently, this wasn't much of a problem. Many motherboards IDE controllers are upgradeable via a BIOS update.

This means partitioning the drives won't work; the problem comes up before the file system is opened up and shows where everything is allocated. :P

#16 08-07-2003, 10:22 AM

Windows XP will list only 130GB on any drive above that. You will need to get something like PartitionMagic to partition above 130GB. Not sure but I think the last verson is 8.0 or 9.0

Huck

#17 11-25-2003, 02:54 PM

Just Apply service pack 2 on win xp. It corrects it.

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