Huge hard drive under WinXP

[Matt_H]

I'm trying to help a friend get a 300GB SATA hard drive formatted on his PC.

Windows (booted from another drive) detects the drive as being connected in the hardware manager, but it doesn't show up in My Computer to be formatted.

Booting from the XP CD shows only ~137GB on the drive that can be formatted. Obviously, it's hitting the small LBA block. I am reasonably certain, however, that the BIOS properly detects it as a 300GB drive.

SP2 has been installed, so shouldn't this be working? I've found instructions on how to manually enable the 48bit LBA for ATAPI devices, but not SATA devices. Or is it the same process?

Any advice appreciated.

[countzero]

IMHO you should partition it first using control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk management

[zipper]

Does the file system affect? My 250 GB formatted nicely with NTFS.

[countzero]

If there is no partition in the drive, it doesn't show up in my computer.
Actually, the drive itself doesn't appear in my computer, only the partitions do.

[Etho]

@ Matt_H

Although this link refers to Windows ME it has some interesting information which might help.

experts-exchange

[Amiga1200PPC]

Is this WinXP.org or Amiga.org ?

[sackbut3]

Tell your friend to get Partition Magic 8.0.  That will solve his problem.

Dale

[whabang]

The post was made in the 'Alternative OS'-section, sp stop whining! :-P

@Matt_H
You need to partition the drive first.
As for the drive not showing up properly in the XP-install, you probably have the drive in compatability mode, and need to set it to SATA-mode. Then boot from the CD, and then install the SATA-drivers prior to partitioning ('Press F6 to use a 3rd party SCSI yada yada...')
If that doesn't work (or if there is no floppy drive), try updating the BIOS.

[adonay]

Tell your friend to get Partition Magic 8.0. That will solve his problem

i agree yhst would work i us PM for all disk work on pc

adonay :-D

[whabang]

adonay wrote:
i agree yhst would work i us PM for all disk work on pc
adonay :-D

That did not make any sense for me.

[bloodline]

Matt_H wrote:
I'm trying to help a friend get a 300GB SATA hard drive formatted on his PC.

Windows (booted from another drive) detects the drive as being connected in the hardware manager, but it doesn't show up in My Computer to be formatted.

Booting from the XP CD shows only ~137GB on the drive that can be formatted. Obviously, it's hitting the small LBA block. I am reasonably certain, however, that the BIOS properly detects it as a 300GB drive.

SP2 has been installed, so shouldn't this be working? I've found instructions on how to manually enable the 48bit LBA for ATAPI devices, but not SATA devices. Or is it the same process?

Any advice appreciated.

As someone who has a 300GB SATA drive running in his machine, all I can suggest is, have you installed the MOBO drivers for the SATA controler?

[Matt_H]

by countzero on 2005/5/14 3:06:49

IMHO you should partition it first using control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk management

That did it! Thanks!