Re: Adding a SATA hard drive

To add to the others.

If your WInXP have no SP2, or at least SP1 installed -- you can't use HDDs
larger than 137GB capacity total.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:40:36 -0000, "Philip Andrews"
<philipfaeunst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong, please? I'm trying to add a
>300 GB SATA HDD to an XP Pro unit which already contains three IDE HDDs.
>I've tried every way I can find to create and format any sort of partition
>on this drive - and all methods have failed ('all' being DISKPART, Computer
>Management in 'Control Panel ... Administrative Tools', Partition Magic 7
>and Windows Explorer - where sometimes the drive appears, then it doesn't,
>then it does again. All I get at the end of an attempt to format the drive
>(by any method) is 'format unsuccessful' or words to that effect. SATA is
>enabled in BIOS, and is set to IDE rather than RAID ... all I want to do is
>to use the drive as a large scratchpad for video projects, formatted under
>NTFS.
>
> Any light that anyone can shed would be most welcome - I'm stuck, and
>have been for a week.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Philip
>

.

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