New Maxtor HD formatted itself?

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David Maynard said:
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Just off hand I'd say you don't have 48 bit LBA active so Windows
doesn't handle it properly; causing it to become corrupted when you
write a lot of data onto it.
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I agree with David Maynard.
 
David said:
Bob H wrote:
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Just off hand I'd say you don't have 48 bit LBA active so Windows
doesn't handle it properly; causing it to become corrupted when you
write a lot of data onto it.
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Ok, so what is the difference between active and non active.
Your post seems to have arrived after my update so I am still wondering
if I have it sorted.
Thanks
 
Run Disk Management, and if it shows the entire capacity of the drive,
then Windows 2000 is set up properly. In order for Disk Managment to
show the entire drive capacity, two conditions must be met: 1) SP3 or
SP4 applied to the Windows installation and 2) EnableBigLba entered
into the registry.
 
Bob said:
Ok, so what is the difference between active and non active.
Your post seems to have arrived after my update so I am still wondering
if I have it sorted.
Thanks
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I hadn't seen your follow up messages when I posted.

Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was there are two areas that must
support 48 bit LBA. One is the motherboard BIOS but, odds are, yours is
already 48 bit LBA or else you'd be wondering why the motherboard doesn't
detect your 160 gig drive as being 160 gig.

The other is Windows 2000. That takes service pack 3, or later, (or a post
sp2 hotfix but that's a moot point with a later service pack available) and
the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters

set to 1

If the key isn't set to 1 then 48 bit LBA isn't enabled (I.E. active) even
though it's 'supported' (because you installed the appropriate service
pack) and just installing the service pack doesn't automatically set it.
 
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