Help getting past 137GB HDD Please

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DeeBee

OK I know this must have been discussed many times here before, but however
much I search Google I am no clearer about my situation, and I'm getting
tired - long day - too much red wine etc etc....

So the story goes

Have a Samsung 160GB hdd and its been running fine at full capacity on a Win
XP SP1 machine.

Last weeekend loaded some more mp3 onto it ( I use this pc as a music server
for my SlimP3 player). All of a sudden the pc hangs and I reboot. Then the
Samsung drive is not seen by windows, so reboot again and it is detected in
the boot up by the BIOS but not seen in windows.

So as I need a bigger hdd for my music collection - all cd ripped at
192kbs - I ordered a 250GB Deskstar. That arrived today so stuffed it in the
same and it was not recognised my XP either/ Tried again and it was but when
I started to format it using Partion Magic 8, it would only allow 137GB.

Check in the BOS and it sees the Deskstar and reports the capacity as 250.

So refitted the Samsung 160GB and PM8 saw that as well but would only let me
format it to 137GB

So after ferreting around Samsungs and Hitachi hdd sites they basically say
if you have XP with SP1 all should be OK.

But it is not OK.

Any kind soul out there point me to some website that has an idiots guide to
getting XP to see and accept drives bigger than 137GB?

Are there any utilities that can alter the registry setting to enable 137GB
+ drives

Any help greatly received

DeeBee
 
DeeBee said:
OK I know this must have been discussed many times here before, but however
much I search Google I am no clearer about my situation, and I'm getting
tired - long day - too much red wine etc etc....

So the story goes

Have a Samsung 160GB hdd and its been running fine at full capacity on a Win
XP SP1 machine.

Last weeekend loaded some more mp3 onto it ( I use this pc as a music server
for my SlimP3 player). All of a sudden the pc hangs and I reboot. Then the
Samsung drive is not seen by windows, so reboot again and it is detected in
the boot up by the BIOS but not seen in windows.

So as I need a bigger hdd for my music collection - all cd ripped at
192kbs - I ordered a 250GB Deskstar. That arrived today so stuffed it in the
same and it was not recognised my XP either/ Tried again and it was but when
I started to format it using Partion Magic 8, it would only allow 137GB.

Check in the BOS and it sees the Deskstar and reports the capacity as 250.

So refitted the Samsung 160GB and PM8 saw that as well but would only let me
format it to 137GB

So after ferreting around Samsungs and Hitachi hdd sites they basically say
if you have XP with SP1 all should be OK.

But it is not OK.

Any kind soul out there point me to some website that has an idiots guide to
getting XP to see and accept drives bigger than 137GB?

Are there any utilities that can alter the registry setting to enable 137GB
+ drives

Any help greatly received

DeeBee
Click to expand...

http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm
 
David Maynard said:
Super.

What was the problem in your case?
Click to expand...

Several issues

48bit LBA addressing was not enabled in Win XP, a tool from the above site
sorted that.

Also when I first put the SAmsung 160GB drive in it did see it as 160GB, but
I learnt via a link from the above site that once more than 137GB of daya is
written to the drive, it becomes "unstable" i.e. data loss is possible.
Thats what happened - it appeared to die, i.e. not accessable after I had
written over 137GB of data to it. I use the drive as a SlimP3 (mp3 player)
server.

Anyway its sorted now, thanks to the above link yoiu posted

Cheers

DeeBee
 
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