Seeing big hard drives over a network in XP

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I have two computers on a home network and just installed a 200 GB hard
drive in one of them. The computer that I added the new drive is
running XP Pro and the other is running XP Home. I have shared the new
drive, but when I try to access it from the XP Home machine it can not
see the new drive. When I installed the new drive on the XP Pro system
XP made some changes to the operating system so it could use the new
drive. Do I need to make the same canges to the XP Home machine and if
so, how would I make the changes without swapping the 200 GB drive out
of the XP Pro computer and into the XP Home one?
 
kdmccall said:
I have two computers on a home network and just installed a 200 GB
hard drive in one of them. The computer that I added the new drive is
running XP Pro and the other is running XP Home. I have shared the new
drive, but when I try to access it from the XP Home machine it can not
see the new drive. When I installed the new drive on the XP Pro system
XP made some changes to the operating system so it could use the new
drive. Do I need to make the same canges to the XP Home machine and if
so, how would I make the changes without swapping the 200 GB drive out
of the XP Pro computer and into the XP Home one?
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No.
Your ability to see a drive on another system is determined soley by the
settings on that remote system. If you can still see other drives on that
remote system - then you have not completed some step to successfully share
out the drive.

In short - no special drivers are required to allow a computer to see the
hardware specifications of a remote drive - to the machine you are on it is
just another network drive - whether it is a 4GB Western Digital drive in a
Windows 95 box formatted FAT16 or 8 SATA 500GB hard drives in a RAID array
formatted NTFS.. If the machine it is on sees the total space and is
configured correctly = all remote machines will see whatever you allow them
to without additional drivers for them - since they actually do not
interface with the hardware.
 
Thank you for the reply Shenan. I do not think I gave a very good
picture of my systems. I add the Maxtor 200GB hard drive as a second
drive in my XP Pro machine and when I did that XP made changes to
itself so it could access all of space on a drive that was larger than
the 136.9 GB limit imposed by the ATA(IDE) standards. The other drive
installed in the XP Pro machine is a WD 120 GB drive. On the XP Home
system I have no problems seeing the WD 120 GB drive but the Maxtor 200
GB will not show up. I have shared the Maxtor 200 GB drive in the
normal XP way by right clicking on "D:" drive and selecting "Sharing".
I then select the radio button for "share this folder" with a name of
"D" and user limits set to Maximum Allowed". Because my XP Pro system
had to make some configration changes to accomodate the new large hard
drive I just wonder if the same changes need to be made to my XP Home
system or have I done something wrong on my XP Pro machine in trying to
share the new drive? By the way the XP Home machine has a Maxtor 80 GB
hard drive that is shared and I can see it fine from the XP Pro system.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Ken McCall
 
DL said:
Your origonal post was clear, thus the response from SS was correct
The 136.9gb limit is imposed by win* - updated/corrected by an sp - and/or
bios.
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SP1 fixed this problem. His remote machine is in serious need of an update
for this and many other problems.
 
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