HD replacement problem

[lundywilder]

Hope someone in this group can offer help--please.
I replaced the hard drive of a 4 yr old PCV-RX590G Sony Vaio with a
Western Digital 200 GB
drive. The Vaio originally came with a 100 GB drive running XP. After
installing the drive, I used the system recovery disks and thought
everything went nicely, but when I checked the amount of HD space I
saw it had partioned it into 8 GB for the C drive and 58 mb for
D...the rest was not accessible.

I used the utilities disk that came
with the new hard drive to try to correct the partitions with no luck.

I removed the partitions that system recovery had made and made new
partitions formatted in NTFS using the Western Digital tools.

If I used the system restore disks it immediately went to the 8 GB
partiton
scenario and then as a new twist said that the D partition was
inaccessible. So it became a neverending loop of it formatting and
partitioning and then not being able access part of it. At this point
I got a copy of XP and tried to install it. It acted like it was going
to. It let me make partitions and select which one to install to and
copied all the files then it said it had to reboot. Upon reboot it
gave me a disk-read error. I used a tool to do a complete low level
format and reset all the 1's to 0's. Then I immediately went to the XP
disk and it did the same thing...gave me a disk-read error. This is
the point I am at now.

All advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[spodosaurus]

Hope someone in this group can offer help--please.
I replaced the hard drive of a 4 yr old PCV-RX590G Sony Vaio with a
Western Digital 200 GB
drive. The Vaio originally came with a 100 GB drive running XP. After
installing the drive, I used the system recovery disks and thought
everything went nicely, but when I checked the amount of HD space I
saw it had partioned it into 8 GB for the C drive and 58 mb for
D...the rest was not accessible.

I assume this was not the way it was with the original 100GB hard drive?

I used the utilities disk that came
with the new hard drive to try to correct the partitions with no luck.

What about using XP's drive management tool to partition the remaining
space?

I removed the partitions that system recovery had made and made new
partitions formatted in NTFS using the Western Digital tools.

If I used the system restore disks it immediately went to the 8 GB
partiton
scenario and then as a new twist said that the D partition was
inaccessible.

Does Sony offer any advanced instructions on accessing the restore
program to specify installation parameters? Have you emailed Sony or had
a thorough google/search of their website?

So it became a neverending loop of it formatting and
partitioning and then not being able access part of it. At this point
I got a copy of XP and tried to install it. It acted like it was going
to. It let me make partitions and select which one to install to and
copied all the files then it said it had to reboot. Upon reboot it
gave me a disk-read error. I used a tool to do a complete low level
format and reset all the 1's to 0's. Then I immediately went to the XP
disk and it did the same thing...gave me a disk-read error. This is
the point I am at now.

Does the laptop have any special drivers needed that are downloadable
from the SONY website? What about a BIOS update if it can't see past
138GB, a limitation on some motherboards?

All advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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[Data Recovery Expert]

connect the disk as secondary drive with another windows XP computer
and then try to format it under disk management...
It should sort out the problem beacause whatever you've told so far can
not cause physical error.

If you still get problem, use my website contact form to contact me on
following url:

http://www.techddi.com/techddi/contact-us.html

Regards

Tarun Tyagi
(Author: "Data Recovery with & without Programming")

 

[Data Recovery Expert]

connect the disk as secondary drive with another windows XP computer
and then try to format it under disk management...
It should sort out the problem beacause whatever you've told so far can
not cause physical error.

If you still get problem, use my website contact form to contact me on
following url:

http://www.techddi.com/techddi/contact-us.html

Regards

Tarun Tyagi
(Author: "Data Recovery with & without Programming")

 

[David Maynard]

Hope someone in this group can offer help--please.
I replaced the hard drive of a 4 yr old PCV-RX590G Sony Vaio with a
Western Digital 200 GB
drive. The Vaio originally came with a 100 GB drive running XP. After
installing the drive, I used the system recovery disks and thought
everything went nicely, but when I checked the amount of HD space I
saw it had partioned it into 8 GB for the C drive and 58 mb for
D...the rest was not accessible.

137 gigabyte hard drive limit.

http://www.48bitlba.com/issues.htm

 

[Patty]

Does the laptop have any special drivers needed that are downloadable
from the SONY website? What about a BIOS update if it can't see past
138GB, a limitation on some motherboards?

Western Digital should have an overlay software that can be installed on
the hard drive before partitioning and formatting so that even if the BIOS
doesn't see the full disk space, it will still work.

Patty

 

[LagoonLady]

Thanks all--we will continue to work on it tomorrow. I'll let you know.