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tahir

Flippin hard drives

OK I'm trying to get my onboard IDE channels to recognise a 200Gb HD, I've flashed the M/B bios to the latest version (according to the blurb "fixes large hard drives not recognised" issues) and the drive shows its full capacity in BIOS set up but when Win2K boots up it's still only showing me a 128Gb HD.....

I've got another 2 HDs on a separate controller card and they both show up OK (250 & 300 Gb)

I'm going insane here, any ideas anyone?
dougal

1/ Do you need to use anything special in the fdisk/format line for "large" drives..?
2/ Can you partition the drive and *then* use all of it? (If you can, then the computer, ie hardware, BIOS, etc, *are* dealing with the large drive and its just the OS that isn't - or that'd be my best guess!)
3/ Can't you attach *4* drives to the IDE *card*?
4/ It may not be worth anything, but that'll be 2 cents... Very Happy
tahir

Attaching the 4 HDs to the IDE card means ripping the thing to bits agian, it's got to be OS cos like I say it comes up with 186Gb in BIOS, FDISK doesn't work in Win2K the Disk Manangement utility only picks the bugger up as unpartitioned 128GB HD...
dougal

I think this might help...
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_win2000.html

Especially this bit:
"If you use the traditional Microsoft Disk Administrator or Disk Management tools to prepare your drive or you need to check the status of the EnableBigLBA registry setting, you can use the Ontrack Reg48bitLBA utility to set or confirm if the setting is enabled."
tahir

Dougal you're a star, I'll try that tomorrow.
tahir

Does seem to describe my problems almost perfectly, I'm on SP1 I think so I'll apply the SPs too.
jema

dougal wrote:
I think this might help...
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_win2000.html

Especially this bit:
"If you use the traditional Microsoft Disk Administrator or Disk Management tools to prepare your drive or you need to check the status of the EnableBigLBA registry setting, you can use the Ontrack Reg48bitLBA utility to set or confirm if the setting is enabled."



Concise and infromative to some of us amatuer and professional PC engineers, but is it any wonder people struggle?
Bernie66

From a manmn who couldn't get mozzilla thunderbird to work with aol, that may as well be written in Japanese
Bernie66

Bernie66 wrote:
From a manmn who couldn't get mozzilla thunderbird to work with aol, that may as well be written in Japanese



Looks like I can't even write in English at the moment Laughing
sean

'in English' is OK, it's the rest of it you seem to be struggling with. Wink
tahir

many thanks Dougal, I'd forgotten all about the need to edit the registry to make them worl, all going spiggingly now Wink
dougal

Very Happy
tahir

tahir wrote:
make them worl, all going spiggingly now Wink


Obviously I meant work and spiffingly Laughing
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