200 GB Hard Drive and XP

[Jim Green]

System Info:

Asus P4B
Pentium 4 1.6
Windows XP (w/sp1)
Promise Ultra TX2 100 ATA Controller Card

I purchased a Western Digital 200 GB hard drive. I added it to the IDE 2
connection on the Promise controller card (IDE 1 has an 80GB drive
currently running).

When the machine was rebooted the Promise controller reports the new
drive as 189GB (which is correct I think).

However, when going to XP's disk administrator, it sees the drive as
128GB.

When using Western Digitals Data Life tools for windows to try and
install the disk, it reports that its 131 GB.

I have service pack 1 installed on XP. According to Microsoft this
automatically enables the EnableBigLba=1 required to allow XP to see the
full drive.

Any ideas?

 

[CWatters]

Try posting this on

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

I think you might need a bios upgrade?

Try reading these web pages...

http://www.48bitlba.com/overview.htm

http://www.48bitlba.com/issues.htm

http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

 

[Bishoop]

Jim Green wrote:
|| System Info:
||
|| Asus P4B
|| Pentium 4 1.6
|| Windows XP (w/sp1)
|| Promise Ultra TX2 100 ATA Controller Card
||
|| I purchased a Western Digital 200 GB hard drive. I added it to the
|| IDE 2 connection on the Promise controller card (IDE 1 has an 80GB
|| drive currently running).
||
|| When the machine was rebooted the Promise controller reports the new
|| drive as 189GB (which is correct I think).
||
|| However, when going to XP's disk administrator, it sees the drive as
|| 128GB.
||
|| When using Western Digitals Data Life tools for windows to try and
|| install the disk, it reports that its 131 GB.
||
|| I have service pack 1 installed on XP. According to Microsoft this
|| automatically enables the EnableBigLba=1 required to allow XP to see
|| the full drive.
||
|| Any ideas?

I had the same problem with a 180GB drive. I reformatted in WinXP and it
straightened itself out and reported the correct size.

Worth a try.

 

[Menno Hershberger]

System Info:

Asus P4B
Pentium 4 1.6
Windows XP (w/sp1)
Promise Ultra TX2 100 ATA Controller Card

I purchased a Western Digital 200 GB hard drive. I added it to the
IDE 2 connection on the Promise controller card (IDE 1 has an 80GB
drive currently running).

When the machine was rebooted the Promise controller reports the new
drive as 189GB (which is correct I think).

However, when going to XP's disk administrator, it sees the drive as
128GB.

When using Western Digitals Data Life tools for windows to try and
install the disk, it reports that its 131 GB.

I have service pack 1 installed on XP. According to Microsoft this
automatically enables the EnableBigLba=1 required to allow XP to see
the full drive.

Any ideas?

Try taking the Promise Card out. Sounds like you don't need it now.

 

[Jim Green]

I had the same problem with a 180GB drive. I reformatted in WinXP and it

straightened itself out and reported the correct size.

Worth a try.

Just to be clear, it wasn't showing the full amount of the drive. Then
after formatting in XP (through Disk Management, im sure) it showed the
proper amount?

Thanks for your response!

 

[Alex Nichol]

Try taking the Promise Card out. Sounds like you don't need it now.

He does. The Asus P4B does not support 48 bit LBA, and so the Promise
BIOS is needed. I think what is needed here is

in XP Disk management initially remove the partitions that have been
made

Then in Device manager
a: ensure that the Promise card is correctly present with its drivers
working
b: Then select the Drive itself there and Action - Uninstall to remove
the drive and reboot to let PnP start over. I suspect what has happened
is that PnP found the drive before the card, and so had no means of
getting at it to discover the 48 bit LBA - and has installed as a 28 bit
one.

Then use Disk Management to make a new partitioning

 

[Bishoop]

Jim Green wrote:
||| I had the same problem with a 180GB drive. I reformatted in WinXP
||| and it straightened itself out and reported the correct size.
|||
||| Worth a try.
|||
||
|| Just to be clear, it wasn't showing the full amount of the drive.
|| Then after formatting in XP (through Disk Management, im sure) it
|| showed the proper amount?
||
|| Thanks for your response!

That's correct.

 

[Jim Green]

RESOLVED!

Thanks to all who pointed me in the right direction.

The problem was actually with the windows XP drivers for the Promise ATA
card. Once I upgraded to the newest driver, Disk Management saw the full
drive.

Again, thanks for all your help!!!!