Hard drive size problem

skywalker_208

Hi,

Have a little problem with a new Hard drive im installing... its a 400GB but when i go in to format it and partition etc i only see 128GB... any ideas?

Win XP by the way..

thanks

aidan_walsh

What file system are you formatting to?

skywalker_208

Ntfs...

Endurance Man

What make hdd is it?? I work with 300gb maxator drives a lot and we need to install a program which allows XP to see very large drives.

skywalker_208

It is a Seagate Barracuda...

what is this program you use? maybe i could try that...

Lump

I have a 250 Gig drive installed with XP No problem.

John

Endurance Man

http://tinyurl.com/4fl2r

Hope this helps . I work with these big drives a lot and have had this problem before, i just cant remeber how i solved it :rolleyes: , ill think it about it some more

skywalker_208

This machine is a few years old.. mite try a BIOS update ...

Webmonkey

You probably don't have 48bit LBA enabled in your registry. Windows xp doesn't by default.
You running windows xp/2000? Have a look here http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1115/

skywalker_208

Ive just installed Intel® Application Accelerator and it seems to have done the trick.. can see 372.61GB now..... i know you loose a bit out of the total size of the hard drive but shouldnt i get a bit more than this?

airetam_storm

Na 370Gb sounds about right. Dont know that that program did but only XPpro supports over 127GB

Chalk

nah,
youll lose about 4.5 gigs per 50gig cos of the maths.
they measure 1gig as a 1000kbytes in these terms,
but really 1gig =1024kbytes

i think

skywalker_208

Great! all sorted then..

Heres wat that program does.... (and it is XP pro by the way)

You can use the Intel® Application Accelerator to access the full capacity of hard drives that are larger than 137GB on supported Intel® chipsets with a supported operating system. The Intel Application Accelerator supports hard drives that are greater than 137GB -- which is also referred to as 48-bit logical block addressing (LBA).

skywalker_208

by the way ... how the hell do you partition a 400GB drive! thats a lot of space!

im thinking maybe 3 * 100GB and 1*72GB...

Makaveli

When you go to format the drive you should be able to set up the partitions.

Right click My Computer, select Manage. This should open Computer Management. The click storage, this should open a drop down menu. Click on Disk Management. On the right hand side you should be able to see all the drives. Go to the new one, right click on it and select format. From there it should let you set up the partitions.

skywalker_208

Thanks Mak... but i didnt actually mean HOW do you do it.... was just saying i never had to split a drive this big before and had to think about the size and number of partitions...

just has them formatting now... I have noticed that the hard drive is now quite hot ... maybe because its formatting and doing alot of work at the mo?

JPA

Silly question perhaps but can you only use the Intel® Application Accelerator on PC's using Intel chips?

I use AMD and have a similar problem. 200GB only seen as 126.

skywalker_208

well i would imagine so.. but you can read more about it here

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/

and there is also some good reading about large drive support on the maxtor site here:

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_lva=1392&p_faqid=960&p_created=1016214655

Makaveli

skywalker_208 wrote:

Thanks Mak... but i didnt actually mean HOW do you do it.... was just saying i never had to split a drive this big before and had to think about the size and number of partitions...

Ha, my bad.
Ah well, might come in handy for someone else.

skywalker_208

yea no harm adding some related info.. heres another bit...

if you dont have a valid product key for XP.... u cant install SP2!!!!

not that i would have a problem with that.... someone elses PC im tinkering with at the mo with this new drive etc...

Webmonkey

I mentioned the 48bit LBA away up there if anyone hasn't noticed :rolleyes:

skywalker_208

Yea Webmonkey.. that was the next step i was going to take but didnt need it after. Sure someone with similar problems will need it though.

Webmonkey

astrofool

XP SP1 and SP2 support greater than 127gig drives by default, so either upgrade to them from regular XP, or if formatting, slipstream the formatting cd to include the service packs (google for nLite for doing this).