Re: problem with XP and 200 Gb harddrive
From: Andy (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/07/04
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:22:10 -0700
Hi
I'm not sure if Service Pack 1 is on the original XP
install disc that I have. It said it is the 2002
version. But the first thing I did when I booted up was
install all critical windows updates. So Service Pack 1
was/is installed now. And if I have to completely format
the drive in order for it to work, then oh well. I'll do
it. But I had an idea last night which I think will work.
My idea was to use Maxblast 3 to do a drive-to-drive copy
to my 40 GB HD. Which semi-worked. Pretty much all the
files copied over, except a few that were not required to
boot XP, but when I went to boot up thats when I ran into
problems, which I was half expecting. Let me explain.
See the reason I bought XP and a 200 GB was because about
a month ago my windows 98(on a 80 GB harddrive) got
registry errors and needed a format and clean install to
fix. So I installed windows 98 on my 40 GB harddrive in
the meantime until I could buy XP and a larger harddrive.
That worked for about two weeks until oneday it just
stopped booting up. It would either hang with a black
screen when loading up windows or it would say "Safe to
shutdown your computer" and then power down. I hope you
can follow that. So anyways, I formatted the 40 GB a few
times and Win98 and WinXP will not boot up, but I can copy
files to and from it. So it doesn't make sense to me.
Oh and the 127 GB is not a typo. Maxtor's site talks
about it either being 137 or 128, so I figure close enough.
Also, I'm not quite sure what a slipstream install is. If
someone could explain or point me to somewhere that
explains, please do. Well that is all I can think of to
say right now. Thanks for the suggestions and any help
towards fixing my 40 GB hd would be appreciated. I'm
hoping that is just some setting I messed up. Just a lot
of bad luck in the past few weeks!
Andy
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>"Andy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>> Hi
>>
>> I recently purchased a copy of Windows XP Home Edition
and
>> a Maxtor 200 GB harddrive. My motherboard(Asus A7v133)
>> detects it as a 189 Gb harddrive. (I know that it will
>> not say a full 200.) But Windows XP says it is 127 GB.
>> My BIOS are up to date and I downloaded the patch from
>> Maxtor that made it so XP could detect larger
harddrives.
>> If anyone knows a solution to this dilemma, any help
would
>> be appreciated. A fix without having to format would be
>> preferable. Well, thanks in advance!
>>
>> Andy
>
>Andy:
>I assume that you did not install SP1 when you originally
installed Windows
>XP. The actual capacity of your 200 GB hard drive is
about 186 GB (in binary
>terms). The 189 GB your BIOS is reporting is close
enough. I note you state
>Windows XP reports the capacity of your HD as 127 GB. I'm
not sure if that's
>a typo since the OS should be reporting 137 GB, assuming
you installed XP
>without SP1.
>
>Assuming, as you state, that the mainboard's BIOS
supports large-capacity
>drives, i.e., drives greater than 137 GB, the Windows XP
OS (not including
>SP1) will recognize a maximum capacity of 137 GB so that
the maximum
>partition one can create will be that size. Should the
drive have a greater
>capacity, the remaining disk space will not be recognized
by the operating
>system. If, however, the XP installation disk includes
SP1, then the full
>capacity of the disk will be recognized.
>
>
>
>Again, assuming the mainboard's BIOS supports large-
capacity drives, when
>SP1 is subsequently installed, the full capacity of that
drive greater than
>137 GB will be recognized -- the 137 GB that was
partitioned/formatted when
>XP (less SP1) was installed; the remaining GB will be
shown as "unallocated
>space" -- space that you can subsequently
partition/format using XP's Disk
>Management utility. But note that it will be a second
partition on the disk.
>The only way to create a single 200 GB (actually, about
186 GB) partition on
>that disk in this situation would be through Partition
Magic or similar
>program.
>
>
>
>You do not need, nor, in my opinion, should you use the
Maxtor Big Drive
>Enabler software patch under the conditions that I've
indicated above, i.e.,
>your BIOS supports large-capacity disks and your XP OS
includes SP1. These
>so-called "overlay" programs seem to cause more user
grief than they should
>over the long-term. They seem certain to rise up
and "bite" you at some
>future date when, should the need arise, you have to
repartition/reformat
>your drive.
>
>
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>Art
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