External Hard Drive not reading more than 127 GB

[DVersiga]

Before anyone dismisses me, please understand that I've searched the web
for answers and am still not sure how to solve my problem. I am new to
using external peripherals with my laptop, so my knowledge is somewhat
limited. I am not, however, computer illiterate.

Anyway, here goes:

I am running a Dell Inspiron 8200 (purchased in 2002) with Windows XP
Pro as my operating system.

I recently obtained 3 items:

Maxtor 200GB Hard Drive
An old firewire hard drive case that previously housed an older drive
A PCMCIA Firewire card

The Maxtor Drive is in the Buslink drive case, where a firewire cable
leads to my PCMCIA firewire card.

Windows isn't recognizing this drive's full capacity of 200GB; it's
only recognizing it as 127GB. After searching the web for answers, I
decided to do all of these things:

Installed Service Pack 2
Updated my BIOS (even though I doubt this matters since it's an
external hard drive)
Downloaded and succesfully ran Maxtor's BigLBAEnabler.

However, none of these things work, and there is no unpartitioned drive
space under Disk Management.

So this leads me to believe that there is a problem with the firewire
hard drive case. My uncle gave me this case, so I'm not sure what kind
of hard drive was in it before. I just know that it's a BusLink
Firewire Hard Drive, of course without the previous hard drive and now
home to my new Maxtor.

I've tried everything I know to do. Does anyone have any clues? Any
help would be appreciated.

 

[neil]

Perhaps the firewire drive hardware (not your drive) is limited, is there a
part number on the case.

Neil

 

[Andy]

Obtain a new enclosure that's designed to handle large drives.