Asus A8N-VM CSM MAINBOARD and large ide

[gs]

In this PC, I already got 4 SATA drives. Now I ma running out of space, so
I brought an Seagate 300GB IDE connect to 2n IDE controller ( already have
optical drives DVD and DVD on 1st one) with cable select. nothing else is
on the 2nd controller.


Booting into XP Pro (with latest updates), login with an admin. acct, try to
set up the disk, I discover I either use basic disk and limit myself to a
max partition size of 28GB or have to use dynamic volume.


Is there another way that I format the entire drive as one big volume. the
SATA drives are using Media shield drivers. I thought IDE can part of the
Raid also but apparently not, it did not show anything about IDE


What can I do?

 

[Sharon F]

I discover I either use basic disk and limit myself to a
max partition size of 28GB

XP's FAT32 format will limit the size to 32GB. If you want larger, use a
Win9x/ME boot disk to partition and format.

NTFS should allow the drive to be formatted as a single basic partition
utilizing all drive space.

checklist that I can come up with for now:

Does the system's BIOS support a drive of this size? If yes, support for
large drive is enabled in BIOS settings?

Right kind of cable being used? (80 wire with 40 pins, *not* 40 wire)

Check jumper settings on drive. Some drives have a setting that limits the
amount of drive space seen by the system.

Delete existing partitions and make new ones.

Run diagnostics on the disk to see if it's healthy or not.

Try Master/Slave instead of Cable Select

OR

You could follow the path of least resistance. Go ahead and make this a
dynamic volume. Do not mount it to another volume yet. Do not place any
files on the drive. Instead, use Computer Management to convert it to
Basic.

How To Convert to Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP Professional
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044/en-us