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160 Gig HD Incompatibility

Started by ScottB, June 26, 2004, 22:59 hrs

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ScottB

I recently purchased a 160 Gb Maxtor HD and added it to my Win XP P4 System (2GHz, 1/2 Gig of RAM).  I set up the HD with MaxBlast software and that appeared to work as advertised.  When I tried to add the HD as a third disc attached to an Adaptec RAID card, the system would just hang at boot up.

I reconfigured it as a slave on one of the EIDE cables and the system boots up ok and finds the drive, but thinks the drive is 31.5 Gb instead of 160 Gb.

I tried every possible combination of jumper settings to no avail.

I have an 80 Gb HD running just fine off the other cable of the RAID card and I am not trying to use it as either RAID 0 or 1, just as additional hard drive storage space.  I already had filled all four EIDE spaces with the C drive, DVD Player, CD Burner and DVD Burner.

Everything else worked fine.  I have had the system configured this way for about a year and a half.  I disconnected the DVD Player, and that is where I got the 160 Gb HD to work, just not the right size.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Carskick

Does your motherboard BIOS support 160GB drives? On a system as new as yours, I'd think it would, but you should check just in case. You may need to flash your BIOS.
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pat

What is the make and model of your motherboard?
Did you format as one large drive (no partitions)?
Did you use NTFS or the Fat32 file system?
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query

Make sure the RAID card has support for large drives, and that Windows XP is at SP1 with large drive support enabled.

ScottB

Thanks for all the responses.  Some of your questions are a bit over my head (that's why I'm here asking dumb questions).

The motherboard is an Intel D845GLAD.  

I formatted the drive as one large drive with NTFS.

My Windows XP OS has SP1.

Where and how can I find:  

1.  If my BIOS supports large drives.

2.  If my RAID card supports large drives.

3.  How to flash my BIOS if I need to do that.

Thanks again.

Carskick

For questions 1 and 2, I'd visit your motherboard manual if you have it, otherwise try Intel's site. Intel will also have BIOS flashing info on their site.
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pat

Did you originally format the drive while connected to the raid card?
If so, it could be that the raid card did not recognize the full capacity of the drive and you could try to format the drive over again while connected to one of the IDE connections on your motherboard.

You could do this from within windows using the disk management tool.
How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP

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