Re: Windows won't boot if any partition extends past 120 GB on 250 GB drive

SeaTools is installed, but flaky. It gives me a lot of .NET exceptions.

JS wrote:
Another thought:
Disk Diagnostic Utilities from:

Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3

Seagate's SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

Maxtor's (Now Seagate) PowerMax
http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/

Fujitsu's Utilities
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/support/utilities.html

Samsung's Disk manager software
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

JS

"Will Pittenger" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uNbY6LiiIHA.1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Not sure. It was either Partition Magic 8 or GParted.

JS wrote:
Did you use Partition Magic or Windows Disk Management
to create the Extended partition and then the logical drives D:, E: and F: ?

JS

"Will Pittenger" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23kiW$0hiIHA.5956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Correct.

JS wrote:
So if you right click on the 'Free Space' in Drive 0 and create a new logical drive (assuming you are able to) this is when your problems begin?

JS

"Will Pittenger" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OXDwE8giIHA.4320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Incidentally, as the attached screenshot shows, parts of Windows
correctly see the size of the drive.

Anna wrote:
"Will Pittenger" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I already knew 48-LBA was supported thanks to another program I downloaded.
However, I did download yours. It was nicer. It does say that 48-bit LBA
is supported.

I should note that the drive in question has been chirping. When my
previous drive did that, someone at http://hddguru.com said to return the
drive. I did that. So far, I have only noticed it with this drive (the
replacement) once with Windows failing to wake up from hibernation once
(cause unknown as I was asleep).

However, neither of the programs that I have run to check things like that
have had a problem. Please note that your program sees this drive as only
137 GB. It knows about 48-bit LBA drives but can't properly recognize
one?

JS wrote:
Verify if HD Tune indicates your drive supports 48Bit LBA.
HD Tune, provides drive info and has an option to test your drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/
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Will:
It seems reasonably clear (I least I *think* it's "reasonably clear"!) that
when you installed your large-capacity HDD your XP OS did *not* contain SP1
and/or SP2. Would I be correct about that?

Should that be the case the OS will *not* detect disk-capacity > 137 GB
(roughly 128 GB binary). Should you subsequently install SP1 and/or SP2 the
full capacity of the disk will be recognized however the remaining disk
space > the 137 GB (128 GB) will be considered "unallocated space", i.e.,
disk space that you can partition/format using XP's Disk Management utility.
So at the minimum you have two partitions on the drive.

Obviously we're assuming your BIOS supports large-capacity disks and judging
from your description it does.
Anna

P.S.
The "chirping" is another story. Just ensure you maintain current backups of
your system.


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