PCI IDE Card w/ 160 GB HD

[Shenan Stanley]

a while ago i got a hold of a WD 160 GB HD. After installing it i
found i didn't have the full 160, only about 127! I then found out
you need a RAID or PCI IDE card to use the full 160. Well i got one,
but when i connect it to the card XP won't boot, the card is booted,
but xp just freezes up. PLEASE HELP!!! The card is a PROMISE Ultra100.

XP is on the 160GB drive now?
If you plan on using the full space NOW, you will likely be better off
formatting. You will need a floppy diskette with the Promise drivers on it
during the install and Windows XP will use these drivers later as well. You
can download them from Promise' Web site.

 

[Jerry]

Plus you will have to turn on 48-bit LBA so that XP will see all drives
larger than 137Gb.

 

[D.Currie]

a while ago i got a hold of a WD 160 GB HD. After installing it i found i
didn't have the full 160, only about 127! I then found out you need a RAID
or PCI IDE card to use the full 160. Well i got one, but when i connect it
to the card XP won't boot, the card is booted, but xp just freezes up.
PLEASE HELP!!! The card is a PROMISE Ultra100.

If your motherboard supported drives of that size, you didn't need the card.

When you put the drive on the card, it changed the drive location as Windows
knows it, so there's a second problem. And you haven't got the drivers for
the card loaded.

If you do get it booting, you have your partition set to the smaller size,
so you'll either need to create a new partition on the rest of the space,
expand the using a third-party program, or format and reinstall

Also, you'll need SP1 for windows to see the drive properly.

The easiest way to sort this out would be to (1) see if you really needed
the card, or if the motherboard would have supported it natively.

If you decide to use the card, start the windows setup over again...you'll
need to press f6 during the setup to load the promise drivers. Then do a
repair install.

If you don't have SP1, install it. Then create a second partition in the
empty space.

 

[Bob Harris]

a while ago i got a hold of a WD 160 GB HD. After installing it i found i
didn't have the full 160, only about 127! I then found out you need a RAID
or PCI IDE card to use the full 160. Well i got one, but when i connect it
to the card XP won't boot, the card is booted, but xp just freezes up.
PLEASE HELP!!! The card is a PROMISE Ultra100.

 

[Bob Harris]

XP is a lot more sensitive to hardware changes than was win98. however, it
does have a way to handle such things. You need to preform a "repair" also
called a "repair installation". This is similar to a full installation, but
does not reformat the disk, so your personal files are preserved, as are
most settings. In order to do a repair you need a real XP CDROM, not an OEM
version, and definitely not a "restoration CD".

Early during the repair a message will flsh brief near the bottom of the
screen asking if you have any third party drivers. It may mention SCSI and
RAID. Quickly hit F6, then insert a floppy with the drivers when requested.
Note that the drivers must be on a floppy, not on a CD or other medium; that
is a limitation of the XP installation routines.

Here are some links about doing a repair:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341



http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm



http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=23979,00.asp


But, you are not done. The repair should get the controller card and
associated disk recognized by XP. But to use the full 160 Gig in XP, you
also need to apply SP-1. Check to see whether your XP CDROM already has
SP-1; maybe it does, if you are lucky. Finally, you need to activate LBA-48
in XP. See the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[Bryan Maier]

a while ago i got a hold of a WD 160 GB HD. After installing it i found i
didn't have the full 160, only about 127! I then found out you need a RAID
or PCI IDE card to use the full 160. Well i got one, but when i connect it
to the card XP won't boot, the card is booted, but xp just freezes up.
PLEASE HELP!!! The card is a PROMISE Ultra100.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Not with the additional PCI IDE controller!!! The controller has its own
BIOS that does this. The motherboard BIOS is not used!


Y.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

A complete OEM full XP CD also does perform the repair installation
successfully! I personally done this a few times!!

Y.