XP SP2, 250 GIG Maxtor, A7N8X-E DLX, have to enable LBA support, if upgrade / fresh install claims u

[Arthur Rosene]

XP SP2, 250 GIG Maxtor, have to enable LBA support, if upgrade or fresh install
HD claimed "unpartitioned"

motherboard - Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe.

latest bios

thanks ! please help. this is insanity. loss of data is bad.

 

[Arthur Rosene]

BTW, the Maxtor 250 gig hd is a backup drive not a drive the OS resides on its
for storing data.

 

[neil]

So how have you partitioned and formatted the drive. It may be you just need
to go to disk management and create a partition then format the drive and
assign a drive letter. (if it doesn't do it for you)

all the best
Neil

 

[Arthur Rosene]

and lose all data every re-installation ?

i partitioned the drive with maxblast 3 for windows (maxtor)

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Well you didn't really explain the problem or what you want to do
clearly. Maybe a more clear post would help. From what I see written,
I think you are saying you have a 250 GB Maxtor drive that is either not
showing the full size or is not working properly.

With your follow up explaining what the problem is and what you would
like, please also include what you see in Disk Management (Right click
on My Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management).

 

[Arthur Rosene]

its NTFS, healthy, primary partition even though if i reinstall it gets wiped
and must be prepared using maxtors software. some report about EZ-Drive wont
allow partition magic to do it if its connected, wiped, (during reinstall).
maxtor's software branded it as a primary partition. all i'd hope for is that
i could use 250gb and not lose the single partition on a xp sp2 install. that
includes upgrade method -- gets wiped.

i have a feeling i have to disconnect the drive from now on and run
"enable_large_drive.exe" from maxtor then reconnect. i would not mind
partitioning it into 2 if i did not have to do this.

?

 

[Arthur Rosene]

its NTFS, healthy, primary partition even though if i reinstall it gets wiped
and must be prepared using maxtors software. some report about EZ-Drive wont
allow partition magic to do it if its connected, wiped, (during reinstall).
maxtor's software branded it as a primary partition. all i'd hope for is that
i could use 250gb and not lose the single partition on a xp sp2 install. that
includes upgrade method -- gets wiped.

i have a feeling i have to disconnect the drive from now on and run
"enable_large_drive.exe" from maxtor then reconnect. i would not mind
partitioning it into 2 if i did not have to do this.

?

oh, and its supposed to be a backup drive.. there is no operating system on
it.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Reinstalling Windows should not wipe out or alter any data on this drive
since you are not installing Windows to this drive. I am curious as to
why it would wipe out the drive during the reinstall of Windows. Did
you select it to be formatted or are you saying that after installing XP
again, it fails to see anything on the drive that you know was there
before reinstalling XP?

Also, I think you are trying to say EZ-BIOS, not EZ-Drive. This is
where your problem may really come in. The only reason to use this
would be if your BIOS does not recognize the full size of the hard
drive. If this is the case, then use it. If not, get rid of it. Here
are the instructions on how to do that (Read Carefully):
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...F9sdmwxPTgzJnBfY2F0X2x2bDI9JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=