Re: Hard drive not showing full capacity

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Did you use maxblast on it, sometimes the drive overlays can screw things up. Also check your
jumpers on the drive. I also use a Promise card and have had no issues with large drives.
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

"Kraemer" <Kraemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, I am using Disk Management, under Admin tools. I can do this like
change from/to basic disk/dynamic disk, assign drive letter, etc. Everything
seems to work just fine, but I cannot get past 127GB...

"Jim Lewandowski" wrote:

What tool are you using to format/partition? Disk Management in XP (Admin tools)?

JL

"Kraemer" <Kraemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Setup: WinXP Pro SP2 - Promise Ultra100TX2 - Maxtor 300GB EIDE HD - Momboard
ATA is saturated, Promise card is in PCI slot, with Maxtor drive only.

How come I cannot get this drive to format / partition anything greater than
127GB?
- It's not LBA support
- It's not Promise PCI card BIOS (btw at boot, the card shows the full
capacity)





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