137G limit Q

[A]

Hello all,

I'm new to the board, as I'm having some problems with a hard drive and
though this would be a good place to turn.

The HD is a 160 Gig Maxtor that I've had hooked up for 6 months or sop.
All along it has been operating at 137G, dur to the problem that windows
experiences with this.

I have just recently installed another Maxtor 120G, so I figured it was a
good time to move everything on the 160 to the new drive, so I could
reformat it and patch XP pro, so that it will recognise the full drive
size.

None of this worked; even after formatting after I applied the patch, I
still comes up as 137.

I then figured it was something that I could control from the bios, but
when I got in there I couldn't see it, as it is external through a USB 2.0
port.

Any thoughts or ideas on how I might fix this?

Specs are;

P4 2.53
1.5 G RAM
Gigabyte 8INXP Mobo
60G Maxtor (Master)
120G Maxtor (Slave)
160G Maxtor (USB2)
Windows XP Pro

 

[Psi-Tau Paladin]

Have you just formatted the previously partitioned drive or have you
actually repartitioned it to 160GB? If you just reformat you will still
have your original 137.

 

[Eric Gisin]

You put it in a USB enclosure that is limited to 137GB. Swap your 120&160GB
drives.

 

[A]

I was wondering if that was maybe the reason; I'll try that and let you
know how it goes. Thx for the help.

A

 

[A]

lol

that was it.

Now I have a 120 with all my data in the usb box and it doesn't support the
dynamic disk format I used. *sigh*

all good though; the 160 was recognised at that size and I was able to use
partition magic to open up the space. Now I just have to swap em back,
trsfr the data, and swap em back again; how fun.

Thx again for the knowhow; I'm sure I'll be around again sometime.

Peace

A

 

[Tod]

I would assume that an external USB hard drive is not limited by the
motherboard bios (137GB).
Would not an external USB hard drive use a software bios ?

 

[Eric Gisin]

A USB enclosure has a board with 16-bit processor and firmware to convert USB
commands to IDE.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

lol

that was it.

Now I have a 120 with all my data in the usb box and it doesn't support the
dynamic disk format I used. *sigh*

all good though; the 160 was recognised at that size and I was able to use
partition magic to open up the space. Now I just have to swap em back,
trsfr the data, and swap em back again; how fun.

Thx again for the knowhow; I'm sure I'll be around again sometime.

Yup. Very likely today already.