160 GB drive on ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe problem

[LouW]

I am using an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe MB with an Athlon 2800+ CPU. The BIOS is Phoenix Rev
1006, 10/14/2003. I only get 137 GB on the drive. The WD software keeps crashing.

Any idea how to get the rest of the hd? I did check the manual but could not find any
way to recognize drives above 137 GB. I am using Win XP Pro SP1.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Warm Regards,
Lou
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[LouW]

Addendum: The board is REV 2.xx
Thanks,

 

[notritenoteri]

I got a seagate SATA 160GB drive it formats out at 152.625 GBs using 2
partitions of NTFS format. I use Seagate software and it went like grease.
There's lots of material on MS knowledge base about formatting. What
formatting are you useing NTFS or FAT32? I Beleive FAT32 has a limit
around where you're hung up.
BTW I'm using a A7V600 MB wit a 2600+ chip.

Addendum: The board is REV 2.xx
Thanks,

 

[David H. Lipman]

Did you install WinXP on the drive then update to SP1 or did you use WinXP SP1 to install
the OS ?
It makes a difference!

48bit LBA in Win2K -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

48bit LBA in WinXP -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Dave

| I am using an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe MB with an Athlon 2800+ CPU. The BIOS is Phoenix Rev
| 1006, 10/14/2003. I only get 137 GB on the drive. The WD software keeps crashing.
|
| Any idea how to get the rest of the hd? I did check the manual but could not find any
| way to recognize drives above 137 GB. I am using Win XP Pro SP1.
|
| Thanks for any suggestions.
|
| Warm Regards,
| Lou
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|

 

[Ken Maltby]

Addendum: The board is REV 2.xx
Thanks,

Take a close look at the revision number printed on the MB,
I think you will find that it says 1.01.

Luck;
Ken

 

[LouW]

Hi,
I added SP1 after I installed XPPro.
Warm Regards,
Lou
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[LouW]

Hi,
I just did a search and found 5 copies of Atapi.sys, but all are not the version described
in the article. I am not sure I understand hot to find and install the correct version.

Suggestions on how to install the update.

BTW, I installed the SP1 after I installed XP Pro. Does that make a difference?

Thanks,

Warm Regards,
Lou
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[notritenoteri]

Can't help you there. I have my system on an IDE drive. However the XP i
run is up to the latest patches incl SP1.

Hi,
I just did a search and found 5 copies of Atapi.sys, but all are not the version described
in the article. I am not sure I understand hot to find and install the correct version.

Suggestions on how to install the update.

BTW, I installed the SP1 after I installed XP Pro. Does that make a difference?

Thanks,

Warm Regards,
Lou
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[kmchow]

You must be running Win98SE. I don't think there is any way to get the full
160Gb from Win98SE. I think getting 137Gb has already been pretty
incredible. I was in the same dilemma. I believe someone said you had to
split the 160Gb into 2 parts, say 130Gb and 30Gb to get the 160Gb. Please
no flames!!

 

[Ron Reaugh]

I got a seagate SATA 160GB drive it formats out at 152.625 GBs using 2
partitions of NTFS format. I use Seagate software and it went like grease.
There's lots of material on MS knowledge base about formatting. What
formatting are you useing NTFS or FAT32? I Beleive FAT32 has a limit
around where you're hung up.

No such FAT32 limit.

BTW I'm using a A7V600 MB wit a 2600+ chip.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Hi,
I added SP1 after I installed XPPro.

Did you attempt to attach the 160GB drive before installing SP1? In other
words was the 160GB the initial C: install HD for XP before the SP! was
installed?

 

[Ron Reaugh]

BTW, I installed the SP1 after I installed XP Pro. Does that make a

difference?

Yes.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Take a close look at the revision number printed on the MB,
I think you will find that it says 1.01.

Does that make a difference regarding his issue if the BIOS version is
recent?

 

[David H. Lipman]

That's why.

48bit LBA is built into SP1 or you need the specific KB update to make WinXP compatible
with 48bit LBA.

If you had installed a slipstreamed WinXP SP1 from the onset then you would have seen the
full capacity of the drive. Since it is already partitioned it makes things a bit more
difficult. You may be able to get around this with Symantec Ghost 2003 if you can image the
137GB data to say DVD, tape or another hard disk then restore the image back to the drive
and it should use the full 160GB capacity.

Dave



| Hi,
| I added SP1 after I installed XPPro.
| Warm Regards,
| Lou
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
| >Did you install WinXP on the drive then update to SP1 or did you use WinXP SP1 to install
| >the OS ?
| >It makes a difference!
| >
| >48bit LBA in Win2K -
| >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
| >
| >48bit LBA in WinXP -
| >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
| >
| >Dave
| >
| >| >| I am using an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe MB with an Athlon 2800+ CPU. The BIOS is Phoenix Rev
| >| 1006, 10/14/2003. I only get 137 GB on the drive. The WD software keeps crashing.
| >|
| >| Any idea how to get the rest of the hd? I did check the manual but could not find
any
| >| way to recognize drives above 137 GB. I am using Win XP Pro SP1.
| >|
| >| Thanks for any suggestions.
| >|
| >| Warm Regards,
| >| Lou
| >| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| >|
| >|
| >
|

 

[D]

You should bite the bullit and create a slipstreamed install of xp,
including the latest sp, then format/install using the slipstreamed
install - specifically if the 160gb disk is yr C drive, as there have been
some reports of data lose/corruption if you enable the large lba after an
initial install and then create a second partition in the free space.

Hi,
I just did a search and found 5 copies of Atapi.sys, but all are not the version described
in the article. I am not sure I understand hot to find and install the correct version.

Suggestions on how to install the update.

BTW, I installed the SP1 after I installed XP Pro. Does that make a difference?

Thanks,

Warm Regards,
Lou
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[TomC]

LouW

Why the Rev "2.xx"? What revision number is printed on the mobo?

TomC

Addendum: The board is REV 2.xx
Thanks,

 

[kmchow]

What are the major differences between the revision of boards? I bought a
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe last month and it still read Rev 1.0?? I wonder if my
computer store just bought an "old new stock" or they don't sell well?

LouW

Why the Rev "2.xx"? What revision number is printed on the mobo?

TomC

 

[Natéag]

I think Version 2.0 is A7N8X Deluxe (without the E). Probably has less
features.

What are the major differences between the revision of boards? I bought a
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe last month and it still read Rev 1.0?? I wonder if my
computer store just bought an "old new stock" or they don't sell well?

 

[Matthew Farley]

A 160Gb drive will format to 152Gb as drive manufacturers label their drives
1000 bytes to 1 Mb where as we all know that 1Mb = 1024 bytes. Plus you will
also lose some space due to the filesystem itself taking up space.

Matt

 

[mitchd]

fyi, by default 12.5% of your hard disk space is set aside for the MFT
or Master File Table when an NTFS drive is formatted.

Unless your using the 48 bit driver you will only see 137Gb. The 48
bit driver will allow you to get beyond 137Gb on a fresh install, or a
second drive, etc.

An way to see if it is the OS, or the system, is to download a
bootable Linux CD known as Knoppix. This will run only on the CD, but
will show your hard drives. From there you can see what Linux sees
them as. Some commands which you might use are:

df -h which stands for "disk free" in a human format