Seagate Barracuda HDD Capacity Limitation

[Andy K]

Hi,

I have just purchased an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard and 160Gb Seagate
Barracuda 7000.7 Plus 8Mb Cache HDD.

However, despite the BIOS stating that the drive is 160Gb, Windows XP Pro
will only acknowledge it as being 127Gb.

I initially did a fresh install on the new hard drive, and when it was
formatting under the Windows XP Pro installation setup it was only seen here
as being 131Gb.

Then, when Windows had finished being installed, the drive was only seen as
127Gb. I installed SP2, as I had heard that 48-bit Logical Block Addressing
(LBA) was required in order for Windows to recognise drives over
approximately 120Gb, which was included in SP1, and so I presumed would also
be in SP2.

However, this also failed to solve the problem. My motherboard BIOS seems
to have a 48-bit compatible BIOS, as otherwise it wouldn't recognise the
160Gb drive in the first place, would it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

Andy

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Yes, you have to clean install XP SP2 in which case you'll need to create a
slipstreamed CD. Installing the SP after the fact is a bit late.

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html

 

[Ron Sommer]

Windows to recognize drives over approximately 120Gb, which was included in
SP1, but was not always installed.
It is in SP2.
SP2 must be part of the installation XP and not be installed after XP is
installed.
You can slipstream SP2 with XP to a new installation CD.
http://www.48bitlba.com/overview.htm

 

[Guest]

Did you try using the Seagate tool?

http://www.seagate.com/support/software/

 

[Melvin Klassen]

Yes, you have to clean install XP SP2 in which case you'll need to create a slipstreamed CD. Installing the SP after the fact is a bit late.

No, it isn't "fatally" late.

Apply the SP, and then use XP's Disk Manager
(or Partition Magic or Ranish Partition Manager or ....)
to "extend" the partition to span the "free" space.

Note that 131 times 10**(some number) is approximately equal
to 127 times 2**(some bigger number),
if you are wondering why you get both the '131' and '127' numbers
at different times.

 

[DaveW]

Win XP will only recognize up to 127 GB of a formatted harddrive UNTIL you
apply SP1.

 

[...:::PlayerOne:::...]

U¿ytkownik Andy K napisa³:

Hi,

I have just purchased an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard and 160Gb Seagate
Barracuda 7000.7 Plus 8Mb Cache HDD.

However, despite the BIOS stating that the drive is 160Gb, Windows XP Pro
will only acknowledge it as being 127Gb.

I initially did a fresh install on the new hard drive, and when it was
formatting under the Windows XP Pro installation setup it was only seen here
as being 131Gb.

Then, when Windows had finished being installed, the drive was only seen as
127Gb. I installed SP2, as I had heard that 48-bit Logical Block Addressing
(LBA) was required in order for Windows to recognise drives over
approximately 120Gb, which was included in SP1, and so I presumed would also
be in SP2.

However, this also failed to solve the problem. My motherboard BIOS seems
to have a 48-bit compatible BIOS, as otherwise it wouldn't recognise the
160Gb drive in the first place, would it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

Andy

Provobly NTFS reserved place.

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Your brain is still in a vegetative state I see.

 

[...:::PlayerOne:::...]

U¿ytkownik Sleepless in Seattle napisa³:

Your brain is still in a vegetative state I see.

Yes. My mind is in vegetative state when I see posts written by idiots
like YOU. You have to start to paste spam on newsgroups. Spam is better
then your 'scientific' observations.

Without regards,
PlayerOne

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Maybe you could repost so we can all re-examine the stupidity of your
comments.