B
Beemer Biker
I recently installed a SATA seagate 160gb on a WIN XP system. This XP
system had latest services packs, all latest patches etc from microsoft
update. I tried both a quick format and a long one and both bombed out at
exactly 128gb and said the disk "disconnected" even though it (the disk
manager) indicated it had allocated all 149Gb (=160"g"b). The previous hard
drive was a maxtor 60gb with an inexpensive SATA adapter, and I was planning
on moving XP over the new "true SATA" and remove the old maxtor with its
adapter.
In any event, I did get it working. I used ACRONIS easy migrate to copy the
"C" drive to the unpartitioned "160gb". I then pulled out the original "C"
and let ACRONIS finish booting the new 160gb as the old C. It seems to be
working fine and I have a full 160gb, althought I had to re-activate over
the phone to get XP to work.
My question is why the original format failed at 128gb even though the XP
disk manager indicated it had found 149gb of space and was going to use it
all. I assume all is o.k. with the ACRONIS migration even though I probably
have not gone past about 45gb of space since that was what the original 60gb
disk had. Is this a known problem with XP? The INTEL 865perl motherboard
had the latest BIOS as I had flashed it earlier. Could i run into problems
when storing stuff beyond 128gb?
system had latest services packs, all latest patches etc from microsoft
update. I tried both a quick format and a long one and both bombed out at
exactly 128gb and said the disk "disconnected" even though it (the disk
manager) indicated it had allocated all 149Gb (=160"g"b). The previous hard
drive was a maxtor 60gb with an inexpensive SATA adapter, and I was planning
on moving XP over the new "true SATA" and remove the old maxtor with its
adapter.
In any event, I did get it working. I used ACRONIS easy migrate to copy the
"C" drive to the unpartitioned "160gb". I then pulled out the original "C"
and let ACRONIS finish booting the new 160gb as the old C. It seems to be
working fine and I have a full 160gb, althought I had to re-activate over
the phone to get XP to work.
My question is why the original format failed at 128gb even though the XP
disk manager indicated it had found 149gb of space and was going to use it
all. I assume all is o.k. with the ACRONIS migration even though I probably
have not gone past about 45gb of space since that was what the original 60gb
disk had. Is this a known problem with XP? The INTEL 865perl motherboard
had the latest BIOS as I had flashed it earlier. Could i run into problems
when storing stuff beyond 128gb?