137GB + Woes

OK I know this must have been discussed many times here before, but however
much I search Google I am no clearer about my situation, and I'm getting
tired - long day - too much red wine etc etc....

So the story goes

Have a Samsung 160GB hdd and its been running fine at full capacity on a Win
XP SP1 machine.

Last weeekend loaded some more mp3 onto it ( I use this pc as a music server
for my SlimP3 player). All of a sudden the pc hangs and I reboot. Then the
Samsung drive is not seen by windows, so reboot again and it is detected in
the boot up by the BIOS but not seen in windows.

So as I need a bigger hdd for my music collection - all cd ripped at
192kbs - I ordered a 250GB Deskstar. That arrived today so stuffed it in the
same and it was not recognised my XP either/ Tried again and it was but when
I started to format it using Partion Magic 8, it would only allow 137GB.

So refitted the Samsung 160GB and PM8 saw that as well but would only let me
format it to 137GB

So after ferreting around Samsungs and Hitachi hdd sites they basically say
if you have XP with SP1 all should be OK.

But it is not OK.

Any kind soul out there point me to some website that has an idiots guide to
getting XP to see and accept drives bigger than 137GB?

Any help greatly received

DeeBee

On 26/10/2004 DeeBee wrote:

[sniped]

> So as I need a bigger hdd for my music collection - all cd ripped at
> 192kbs - I ordered a 250GB Deskstar. That arrived today so stuffed it
> in the same and it was not recognised my XP either/ Tried again and
> it was but when I started to format it using Partion Magic 8, it
> would only allow 137GB.
>
> So refitted the Samsung 160GB and PM8 saw that as well but would only
> let me format it to 137GB
>
> So after ferreting around Samsungs and Hitachi hdd sites they
> basically say if you have XP with SP1 all should be OK.
>
> But it is not OK.
>
> Any kind soul out there point me to some website that has an idiots
> guide to getting XP to see and accept drives bigger than 137GB?
>
> Any help greatly received

Does the BIOS recognise these drives at full capacity? If not you need
to fix that first.

If your mobo has an Intel chipset then Intel's application accelerator
fixes this. Maxtor also have a utility (?bigdisk) that fixes it
(presumably only for their own drives). I wasn't aware that SP1 fixed
it though.

I lost nearly 160GB of data once on upgrading from W2K to XP when XP
decided to run CHKDSK on a 160GB drive that it thought was 127GB, not
funny.

Whatever you do make sure you have backups of your data before trying
any fixes, and don't let XP boot unattended just in case it decides to
run CHKDSK.

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On 27/10/2004 Mr.Meteor Grimwald (Sex Kitten) wrote:

> Any use?
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013

Very good link - thanks for that, I think I can see how my problem
arose.

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On 27/10/2004 Mr.Meteor Grimwald (Sex Kitten) wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2004 21:39:18 GMT, "Jeff Gaines"
> <> wrote:
>
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013
> >
> > Very good link - thanks for that, I think I can see how my problem
> > arose.
>
> Glad it helped, but word of warning. I enabled 48bit addressing in
> win2k and stuffed in a 200gb ide wdc drive into a hdd pack and copied
> all my critical data across to that drive. I then reinstalled 2k, but
> forgot to enable 48bit lba before I slotted the wdc200gb drive back
> into the pc. As soon as I booted it up, it corrupted the 200gb drive
> causing me to lose all my data (it came up as a 137gb) and there
> wasn't anything I could do to retrieve it, not even removing the hdd
> pack and shoving it into a machine with 48bit enabled. I don't know
> if I screwed something up or whether something happened. Just thought
> I'd mention it

I've been there and done that unfortunately with an upgrade to XP, lost
nearly 160GB. Fortunately the last thing I did before the upgrade was
to back up everything to another PC.

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"Mr.Meteor Grimwald (Sex Kitten)" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 27 Oct 2004 21:39:18 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <>
> wrote:
>
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013
>>
>>Very good link - thanks for that, I think I can see how my problem
>>arose.
>
> Glad it helped, but word of warning. I enabled 48bit addressing in win2k
> and
> stuffed in a 200gb ide wdc drive into a hdd pack and copied all my
> critical
> data across to that drive. I then reinstalled 2k, but forgot to enable
> 48bit
> lba before I slotted the wdc200gb drive back into the pc. As soon as I
> booted
> it up, it corrupted the 200gb drive causing me to lose all my data (it
> came
> up as a 137gb) and there wasn't anything I could do to retrieve it, not
> even
> removing the hdd pack and shoving it into a machine with 48bit enabled. I
> don't know if I screwed something up or whether something happened. Just
> thought I'd mention it
>
>

Another very good site with loads of info and links to good tools is

www.48bitlba.com

Also as I found out the hard way if you do put a bigg hdd into an XP or
Win2K pc that is not 48bit enabled the PC may see the hdd as full capacity
but as soon as you put more than 137GB of data onto that disc it get
corrupted.

But although you can no longer see the disc in My Computer, it is still OK.
Remove disc enable 48bit lba then put disc back in and reformat. All data
will be lost however

hth

DeeBee