I recently purchased a 160 gig drive and attached it
to my Promise tx2-100 controller card. On bootup, it
shows it as being 149gigs (correct). When I get into XP
and go to Disk Management, it only shows 128(137).

I have all the latest updates. I have checked the MS site
which says to get the updated atapi.sys, which I have. It
just wouldn't happen.

I then booted up from a Win98SE bootdisk. I used the updated
fdisk, although it still didn't recognize a 160 gig. I formatted
the full capacity, which said 15 gigs .

I then went into XP, and it now shows the drive at its full capacity,
149 gigs. I am able to format it and it appears to work fine.

If I delete the partition, it goes back to 128.

I'm now wondering if everything will be fine after I use up 137 gigs.

Strange...
Tom

"Thomas Funk" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:bg62j9$j2l$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I recently purchased a 160 gig drive and attached it
> to my Promise tx2-100 controller card. On bootup, it
> shows it as being 149gigs (correct). When I get into XP
> and go to Disk Management, it only shows 128(137).
>
> I have all the latest updates. I have checked the MS site
> which says to get the updated atapi.sys, which I have. It
> just wouldn't happen.
>
> I then booted up from a Win98SE bootdisk. I used the updated
> fdisk, although it still didn't recognize a 160 gig. I formatted
> the full capacity, which said 15 gigs .
>
> I then went into XP, and it now shows the drive at its full capacity,
> 149 gigs. I am able to format it and it appears to work fine.
>
> If I delete the partition, it goes back to 128.
>
> I'm now wondering if everything will be fine after I use up 137 gigs.
>
> Strange...
> Tom

Read here;
http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

I wanted to followup on my issue.

Basically, it was the Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller. Even though
when it boots up, it detects the correct size, in XP SP1 it only shows
137 gigs.

I plugged the drive directly into one of my mobo controllers, and now
XP sees the correct size.

I am trying to get support from Promise to see what is wrong.

Tom


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:00:29 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Funk <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Ted <"""""'"""""""> wrote:
>> Read here;
>http://tinyurl.com/ifcb
>
>Yes, I've been there. It basically says to get the updated
>atapi.sys and everything will be fine. But, it's not.
>
>I have all of the updates, so I have SP1, therefore
>the registry settings should have no effect (and they don't).
>
>I wonder if there is some way to rerun the "Initialize hard
>drive wizard", as I ran this before updating my atapi.sys.
>
>Tom