HD > 100GB

[Guest]

Does anyone have a HD > 100GB installed on XP Home? If so, what type is it
and did you have any issues with XP seeing the entire drive?

I have a 120GB WD HD and XP WILL NOT see this drive beyond 32GB. ME has no
issues and XP can see my wifes 80GB HD just fine. I have tried talking to
support, but that has gone no where. I have tried updating the BIOS, and all
the other tricks of the trade. The only way to get XP to see the entire
drive is to use an overlay and use FAT32. I really do not want to use an
overlay.....

It is NOT the HD. I took the drive into work and used a totally different
computer and got the exact same results with my version of XP and with the
companies versioin XP Professional. However, 2 other OS's were able to see
the drive and format it just fine.

I am at my witts end with this, as this has been going on for almost 2 weeks
now.

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

Regards,

Brad

 

[Leythos]

Does anyone have a HD > 100GB installed on XP Home? If so, what type is it
and did you have any issues with XP seeing the entire drive?

I had dual 250GB drive installed in a Sony Vaio with XP Prof SP1 and
didn't have any problems. I also installed a third-party SATA card with
dual 250GB SATA drives and it worked. SP2 didn't change this.

What version of XP/Service Pack are you running?

Does the BIOS report the full drive size?

 

[Leythos]

The version of XP is the very first version Microsoft came out with.

I think that you need SP1 at least, in order to see drives larger than
137GB in size (not sure of the exact number).

I don't have any machines left with pre-sp1 so I can't tell you, but it's
got to do with a LBA limitation in the early XP, search on the MS site for
it, or google.com

 

[Guest]

The version of XP is the very first version Microsoft came out with.

The BIOS sees the entire drive, and since Win95 Boot disk can see the full
drive as well this tells me that the BIOS and drive must be working properly.

I have tried wipping the entire drive with ZERO's and then re-install the
software, just incase there was something on the drive that was causing
issues, but that was not it.

Also, I used a 5GB HD I had to install XP on and then updated it with all
the SP's. However, in XP it only see's 2GB. I have never seen such a thing.
When the legacy product is better than the Fagship product. I'm stuck with
XP now though because I have software that requires XP or 2000.

Thanks for the information.

Regards,

Brad

 

[Ron Sommer]

Does anyone have a HD > 100GB installed on XP Home? If so, what type is
it
and did you have any issues with XP seeing the entire drive?

I have a 120GB WD HD and XP WILL NOT see this drive beyond 32GB. ME has
no
issues and XP can see my wifes 80GB HD just fine. I have tried talking to
support, but that has gone no where. I have tried updating the BIOS, and
all
the other tricks of the trade. The only way to get XP to see the entire
drive is to use an overlay and use FAT32. I really do not want to use an
overlay.....

It is NOT the HD. I took the drive into work and used a totally different
computer and got the exact same results with my version of XP and with the
companies versioin XP Professional. However, 2 other OS's were able to
see
the drive and format it just fine.

What same results?
You slaved the hard drive to a work computer and the drive was recognized as
32 GB?
Did you try to reformat the drive while connected to the work computer?

 

[Guest]

I have a 200GB SATA drive. XP won't allow me a partition greater than 132GB
using NTFS(i don't know why)
In terms of only being able to see 32GB on the drive, have you checked that
the jumpers on the hard drive aren't on a clipped setting (this commonly
being 32GB)? Because, if so then the BIOS might be able to determine the full
size, but the amount that can be used would be limited

Lintal

 

[Guest]

Clarify. Do you mean XP has installed to 32 GB partition and the rest of the
drive is unallocated or do you mean XP occupies the entire drive and just
cant "see" past 32 GB. If it's the latter I have never run across such a
thing.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

XP can work with very large drives. When you originally partitioned the
drive and formatted did you format it as FAT32? That might account for the
problem.
--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


| Does anyone have a HD > 100GB installed on XP Home? If so, what type is
it
| and did you have any issues with XP seeing the entire drive?
|
| I have a 120GB WD HD and XP WILL NOT see this drive beyond 32GB. ME has
no
| issues and XP can see my wifes 80GB HD just fine. I have tried talking to
| support, but that has gone no where. I have tried updating the BIOS, and
all
| the other tricks of the trade. The only way to get XP to see the entire
| drive is to use an overlay and use FAT32. I really do not want to use an
| overlay.....
|
| It is NOT the HD. I took the drive into work and used a totally different
| computer and got the exact same results with my version of XP and with the
| companies versioin XP Professional. However, 2 other OS's were able to
see
| the drive and format it just fine.
|
| I am at my witts end with this, as this has been going on for almost 2
weeks
| now.
|
| If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.
|
| Regards,
|
| Brad

 

[Guest]

The drive was not a slave on the work or home computer. The drive, even
completely wipped clean with all ZERO's, is only seen as a 32GB HD by XP.

The drive was seen and formatted and tested with file transfers with 2 other
OS's that were not Microsoft and the drive/OS had no issues.

 

[Guest]

I mean that XP only sees 32GB of the hard drive and therefore will only
partition/format 32GB of the drive.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I mean that XP only sees 32GB of the hard drive and therefore
will only
partition/format 32GB of the drive.

Are you trying to create a FAT32 partition? Windows XP will not
create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB (although it happily
use one is created externally).

Either use NTFS or create the partion with FDISK before starting
to install XP.

 

[Guest]

I have tried formatting the drive using NTFS and with FAT32. Using XP to
format the drive, from a clean install, it will only partition/formatt 32GB.
From a 5GB HD install of XP with all service packs, it only see's the drive
as a 2GB HD. Therefore I am in even worse shape when running XP and trying
to format this drive.

If I use an overlay program with the drive formatted as FAT32, then things
are fine. It will not work with the overlay under NTFS. Even if I format
the drive pre-installation, when the install asks which drive do I want to
install on, it only has 32GB as the drive in question.

 

[Guest]

I think there's a lot of confusion here. The drive you're talking about (the
120 GB one) does not have XP installed on it, right? It's a separate drive
that your using for data or whatever. If that's the case then any partition
utility (I would use the best known one) should be able to resize it up to
full disk size. It might have large clusters (16 K or higher) though.

 

[Leythos]

I have tried formatting the drive using NTFS and with FAT32. Using XP to
format the drive, from a clean install, it will only partition/formatt 32GB.
From a 5GB HD install of XP with all service packs, it only see's the drive
as a 2GB HD. Therefore I am in even worse shape when running XP and trying
to format this drive.

As I've already said, the origonal XP didn't ship with large disk ability,
it was limited to drives of 137GB in size (or about that size). The larger
disks sometimes appear properly, but mostly don't.

Service Pack 1 for XP fixed this issue, and it needs to be NTFS to use
larger than 32GB.

 

[Guest]

OK.... I have a 120GB HD that I bought to replace my 40GB HD which crashed.

This drive will be the BOOT drive and XP needs to install onto this drive.
This is the issue.....

It is not going to be just for data, or I would not have this issue.

 

[Guest]

The same thing should apply then (about the resizing). I have installed WinXP
multiple times into small partitions (5 GB or less) and then resized them to
fill the whole drive (My current drive is 120 GB). I have mentioned this
product before in posts but if you're not familiar with it it's
PartitionMagic 8.0. It on Symantec's site and is the best investment in
utility software there is for your problem and a myriad of others. You won't
regret it.

 

[Leythos]

HMMMM.....

You say " As I've already said, the origonal XP didn't ship with large disk
ability,
it was limited to drives of 137GB in size (or about that size)" so why then
is it not seeing a 120GB HD? The last time I checked 120GB was less than
137GB.

Perhaps I'm missing something in your explaination?

Ack, i missed the 120, I thought you said, in another post, you had a
200GB drive.

As to the 120, there are some BIOS's that don't see larger drives
properly, even though they should. Check the motherboard vendors site to
see if they have a updated BIOS for the specific problem. I seem to recall
a number of vendors that had to provide new BIOS's for larger drives,
yours may be one.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but it is not a BIOS issue.... Though I wish it was as I could
resolve this easier.

My BIOS can see the full size of the drive, and I even updated it just in
case there was an issue with the old BIOS.

Not the issue, unfortunately.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You need to check on the hard drive itself. Some hard drives have a jumper
setting which limits the size to 32GB. This seems to be what is occurring.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I know that there are hard drives that have a jumper to limit to size to
32GB. Does this hard drive have this jumper??