Hi-
I have a 200GB harddrive that I would like to make my boot drive, with
one big 200GB partition. The problem is that I can't set up windows with 48
bit LBA enabled. right now, i'm booting a floppy to an installation on my
2nd hard disk- I have sp1, a promise 133TX2 controller that supports 48 bit
LBA, the updated atapi.sys that mycrowsoft says i need, the WHQL'd ultra.sys
for the controller that also supports 48 bit LBA, plus the EnableBigLba
entry set to 1, but still disk manager only sees 128GB of the drive.

If I use maxblast to create a 200GB partition ahead of installing windows
and do the update, everything seems to be working but eventually I'll start
getting MFT errors, and if I run chkdsk on the drive I get the error that
the second MFT is unwritable. If I boot up the cd and load the driver using
F6, maxtor, promise, and the ms kb all say that I should see the full 200 of
the drive, but I don't, and setup won't create partitions on any of the
disks - if i do say create one, it does, but shows the type as "RAW" and
then tells me that it can't load windows until i delete that partition and
create another one thats ntfs, but it refuses to do that.

If I install windows with the 80GB as drive 0 and the 200GB as drive 1, I
can add the drive as a second drive after getting xp to sp1, but the whole
idea was to get rid of the 80GB and have just the 200GB.

i bought xp pro early on in the game, i'm starting to regret it just like i
did when i was stuck with my windows '98 when everything required windows
'98SE. Is anybody having any luck doing this with xp and promise
controllers and drivers?

Hello

Seelink below ok


How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk
Drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013




Alvin


Bob wrote:

> Hi-
> I have a 200GB harddrive that I would like to make my boot drive, with
> one big 200GB partition. The problem is that I can't set up windows with 48
> bit LBA enabled. right now, i'm booting a floppy to an installation on my
> 2nd hard disk- I have sp1, a promise 133TX2 controller that supports 48 bit
> LBA, the updated atapi.sys that mycrowsoft says i need, the WHQL'd ultra.sys
> for the controller that also supports 48 bit LBA, plus the EnableBigLba
> entry set to 1, but still disk manager only sees 128GB of the drive.
>
> If I use maxblast to create a 200GB partition ahead of installing windows
> and do the update, everything seems to be working but eventually I'll start
> getting MFT errors, and if I run chkdsk on the drive I get the error that
> the second MFT is unwritable. If I boot up the cd and load the driver using
> F6, maxtor, promise, and the ms kb all say that I should see the full 200 of
> the drive, but I don't, and setup won't create partitions on any of the
> disks - if i do say create one, it does, but shows the type as "RAW" and
> then tells me that it can't load windows until i delete that partition and
> create another one thats ntfs, but it refuses to do that.
>
> If I install windows with the 80GB as drive 0 and the 200GB as drive 1, I
> can add the drive as a second drive after getting xp to sp1, but the whole
> idea was to get rid of the 80GB and have just the 200GB.
>
> i bought xp pro early on in the game, i'm starting to regret it just like i
> did when i was stuck with my windows '98 when everything required windows
> '98SE. Is anybody having any luck doing this with xp and promise
> controllers and drivers?

Hi-
As I stated in my first message, I've already done all that - I do have
the updated atapi.sys

"Alvin Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello
>
> Seelink below ok
>
>
> How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk
> Drives in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013
>
>
>
>
> Alvin
>
>
> Bob wrote:
>
> > Hi-
> > I have a 200GB harddrive that I would like to make my boot drive,
with
> > one big 200GB partition. The problem is that I can't set up windows
with 48
> > bit LBA enabled. right now, i'm booting a floppy to an installation on
my
> > 2nd hard disk- I have sp1, a promise 133TX2 controller that supports 48
bit
> > LBA, the updated atapi.sys that mycrowsoft says i need, the WHQL'd
ultra.sys
> > for the controller that also supports 48 bit LBA, plus the EnableBigLba
> > entry set to 1, but still disk manager only sees 128GB of the drive.
> >
> > If I use maxblast to create a 200GB partition ahead of installing
windows
> > and do the update, everything seems to be working but eventually I'll
start
> > getting MFT errors, and if I run chkdsk on the drive I get the error
that
> > the second MFT is unwritable. If I boot up the cd and load the driver
using
> > F6, maxtor, promise, and the ms kb all say that I should see the full
200 of
> > the drive, but I don't, and setup won't create partitions on any of the
> > disks - if i do say create one, it does, but shows the type as "RAW" and
> > then tells me that it can't load windows until i delete that partition
and
> > create another one thats ntfs, but it refuses to do that.
> >
> > If I install windows with the 80GB as drive 0 and the 200GB as drive 1,
I
> > can add the drive as a second drive after getting xp to sp1, but the
whole
> > idea was to get rid of the 80GB and have just the 200GB.
> >
> > i bought xp pro early on in the game, i'm starting to regret it just
like i
> > did when i was stuck with my windows '98 when everything required
windows
> > '98SE. Is anybody having any luck doing this with xp and promise
> > controllers and drivers?
>

I had to use Partition Magic to have all the drive available.

-Kent