Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size?

Being defective wont show in the bios or anywhere within windows
Only a bootable disk checking utility will properly test your drive.
Being noisy is an indication of a faulty drive

"Franconeus" <Franconeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All is well in the BIOS and Windows sees the drive as RAW...the drive is
abnormally noisy on start-up and shut-down and there is a chance that it
may
be defective or damaged but would that not show up in the BIOS...Frank
from
Montreal

"Anna" wrote:


"Franconeus" <Franconeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there or is there not a maximum hard drive size that windows is
able
to
format...installed a 500gb SATA hard drive to keep my 120gb "C"
Drive
company...Windows XP SP 2 tells me it is unable to format this
drive...WHY
???
Thank You...Frank from Montreal

"Franconeus" <Franconeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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XP is up to date with SP 2...tried partitioning the drive into 4 parts
(roughly 120gb each)...still no success...if all else fails would my
chances
be better if I used this drive externally through USB or
Firewire...thanx.


Frank:
The response you rec'd from DL is the correct (& only) course of action
to
take at this point. As DL indicated, download and use the HDD diagnostic
utility that you can obtain from the website of the disk's manufacturer.
You
*must* determine whether you're dealing with a defective drive at this
time.
For the moment do not consider installing the drive in some external
enclosure.

I assume the disk is under warranty so there should be no problem in
getting
a replacement from the manuf. should the disk prove defective.
Anna






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