WD 160 Drive on XP Pro-only 137 MB

[LouW]

I am using an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe REV 2.xx MB with an Athlon 2800+ CPU. The BIOS is
Phoenix Rev 1006, 10/14/2003. I only get 137 GB on the drive. The WD software keeps
crashing.

Any idea how to get the rest of the hd? I did check the manual but could not find any
way to recognize drives above 137 GB. I am using Win XP Pro SP1.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Warm Regards,
Lou
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[Bill Crocker]

To begin with, don't use the WD software, you don't need it. Let WinXP
partition, and format the drive, with NTFS.

There is always some overhead when partitioning, and formatting a hard
drive. Depending on the cluster sizes, it can be more, or less.

Bill Crocker

 

[Mike Powers]

Did you install or include Win XP SP1. This is one of the improvements
added.

 

[LouW]

Hi,
I do have SP 1 installed. I know there is overhead but 23 GB from 160 GB? I do have a
Maxtor 160 GB with Maxtor software running that gives me 152 GB.

Warm Regards,
Lou
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[LouW]

Hi,
I do have SP1 installed but when checking for the file Atapi.sys, i find that I don't have
the latest version indicated by Knowledge base article 30313.

How can I get the latest version?

Warm Regards,
Lou
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[Jerry]

If you have SP1 installed then you must turn on 48-bit LBA to see any drives
larger than 137Gb.

Hi,
I do have SP1 installed but when checking for the file Atapi.sys, i find that I don't have
the latest version indicated by Knowledge base article 30313.

How can I get the latest version?

Warm Regards,
Lou
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am using an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe REV 2.xx MB with an Athlon 2800+
CPU. The BIOS is Phoenix Rev 1006, 10/14/2003. I only get 137 GB on
the drive. The WD software keeps crashing.

Any idea how to get the rest of the hd? I did check the manual but
could not find any way to recognize drives above 137 GB. I am using
Win XP Pro SP1.

First - here are the REALISTIC numbers:

Advertised --- Actual Capacity
10GB --- 9.31 GB
20GB --- 18.63 GB
30GB --- 27.94 GB
40GB --- 37.25 GB
60GB --- 55.88 GB
80GB --- 74.51 GB
100GB --- 93.13 GB
120GB --- 111.76 GB
160GB --- 149.01 GB
180GB --- 167.64 GB
200GB --- 186.26 GB
250GB --- 232.83 GB

Your hard drive must be recognized in the hardware BIOS as a 160GB hard
drive.

You must have Service Pack 1a (or SP1) installed in Windows XP.
http://snipurl.com/4ow7

You must enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk
drives in Windows XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013

You either must have formatted with a third party utility (for FAT32) or
used NTFS to format it within Windows to get one partitions of the entire
size of the drive. (For how to format a drive in XP, manage hard disks, etc,
this will get you started: http://snipurl.com/7cup ).

 

[DL]

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

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am using an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe REV 2.xx MB with an Athlon 2800+
CPU. The BIOS is Phoenix Rev 1006, 10/14/2003. I only get 137 GB on
the drive. The WD software keeps crashing.

Any idea how to get the rest of the hd? I did check the manual
but could not find any way to recognize drives above 137 GB. I am
using Win XP Pro SP1.

Your hard drive must be recognized in the hardware BIOS as a 160GB
hard drive.

You must have Service Pack 1a (or SP1) installed in Windows XP.
http://snipurl.com/4ow7

You must enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI
disk drives in Windows XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013

You either must have formatted with a third party utility (for
FAT32) or used NTFS to format it within Windows to get one
partitions of the entire size of the drive. (For how to format a
drive in XP, manage hard disks, etc, this will get you started:
http://snipurl.com/7cup ).

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

Thanks for reiterating the link I already gave. *grin*