Maxtor HD - Unallocatable

[Guest]

I just picked up a Maxtor 250 Gig Hard Drive which fixed all the other
problems with the comp (the other HDs were corrupt) but it shows me only 127
Gigs on the drive. I found out about a program called MaxDrive 4 from the
Maxtor Website and tried it out but it would only let me allocate 8 gigs to a
new partition. I used disk management to remove the partition then tried
using the bootable version of MaxDrive 4 in case it would work better without
Windows running (it's XP by the way) but I can't naivigate the menus with the
mouse because it won't detect it outside windows and the keyboard navigation
stays within one section of the window (can't access the "Next" button).

Does anyone know any other method allocating the other half of my HD?

 

[philo]

I just picked up a Maxtor 250 Gig Hard Drive which fixed all the other
problems with the comp (the other HDs were corrupt) but it shows me only
127
Gigs on the drive. I found out about a program called MaxDrive 4 from the
Maxtor Website and tried it out but it would only let me allocate 8 gigs
to a
new partition. I used disk management to remove the partition then tried
using the bootable version of MaxDrive 4 in case it would work better
without
Windows running (it's XP by the way) but I can't naivigate the menus with
the
mouse because it won't detect it outside windows and the keyboard
navigation
stays within one section of the window (can't access the "Next" button).

Does anyone know any other method allocating the other half of my HD?

how does the bios see the drive?
if it's detected at a 127 gig drive you need to see if a bios update is
avail...
or else use a PCI controler card

 

[Guest]

Review this link..
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316505/
j;-j

 

[Guest]

i am also haveing the same prob with my maxtor sata 2 drive it only sees 127
gigs so i am stuck usein windows 64 bit i email maxtor lookin for a firmeware
update so ill post when i find out

 

[Guest]

Scroll through and investigate..
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/serialATA_FAQ.mspx
j;-j

 

[Guest]

Might give this link the once over..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
j;-j

 

[Andy]

If you have SP1 or SP2 installed, that should be sufficient to access
large drives.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk
drives in Windows XP

 

[Roger]

If you have SP1 or SP2 installed, that should be sufficient to access
large drives.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk
drives in Windows XP

[snip]

Print off this info re- adding a New Hard drive
http://www.regstevens.co.uk/add1.htm

"Roger"
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