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Enabling Large Disk Support
I've posted on this before, but now I've become desperate. I have a new
Western Digital 250 gigabyte drive that I'm trying to run on a WinXP SP1 system, Asus P4T-E mbo. Is anybody else out there running a large drive on a P4T-E? So far I've been unsuccessful, so if you can do it, I'd appreciate hearing how you made it work. When I tried to copy large amounts of data to the drive this afternoon, I got up to the 137 gigabyte limit, and all files beyond that were reported as "corrupted." Here's what I've done: 1) The Asus P4T-E motherboard is flashed to version 1005e. According to documentation, that's supposed to make the mbo support drives larger than 137 gigabytes -- 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA). And in fact, the BIOS recognizes the drive size as 250 gigabytes, and indicates LBA support. Everything *looks* good in the BIOS. 2) I'm running WinXP SP1. I've researched Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 30313 and upgraded Atapi.sys to the correct version. I've used X-Setup Pro to insure the registry contains the proper EnableBigLba value, even though KBA 30313 says that isn't necessary with SP1. Windows Explorer says the drive's capacity is 250,056,704,000 bytes (232 gigabytes). Yep, WinXP *says* I can access the full capacity of the drive. I've re-formatted the drive, just to be sure. But when I get to 137 gigabytes, I begin to get error messages. 3) I'm running the latest version of Intel Application Accelerator. 4) Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools software will not run properly on my computer. It always crashes in Windows. And that's too bad, because this software is *supposed* to provide access the the drive's full capacity. 5) Western Digital's Lifeguard Diagnostics software reports the capacity of the physical drive is 137 gigabytes. It also reports the *logical* size of the drive as 244.20 gigabytes. Now why is that? I really thought reformatting the drive was going to fix things -- it took close to 2 hours to reformat the thing. I figured that was about 250 gigabytes. But nope, that didn't do it. I'm still stuck at 137 gigabytes. Please, somebody, I need help. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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There is an ASUS users group alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus which
has some pretty knowledgeable participants. You might get some help there. "Bill Anderson" wrote in message ... I've posted on this before, but now I've become desperate. I have a new Western Digital 250 gigabyte drive that I'm trying to run on a WinXP SP1 system, Asus P4T-E mbo. Is anybody else out there running a large drive on a P4T-E? So far I've been unsuccessful, so if you can do it, I'd appreciate hearing how you made it work. When I tried to copy large amounts of data to the drive this afternoon, I got up to the 137 gigabyte limit, and all files beyond that were reported as "corrupted." Here's what I've done: 1) The Asus P4T-E motherboard is flashed to version 1005e. According to documentation, that's supposed to make the mbo support drives larger than 137 gigabytes -- 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA). And in fact, the BIOS recognizes the drive size as 250 gigabytes, and indicates LBA support. Everything *looks* good in the BIOS. 2) I'm running WinXP SP1. I've researched Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 30313 and upgraded Atapi.sys to the correct version. I've used X-Setup Pro to insure the registry contains the proper EnableBigLba value, even though KBA 30313 says that isn't necessary with SP1. Windows Explorer says the drive's capacity is 250,056,704,000 bytes (232 gigabytes). Yep, WinXP *says* I can access the full capacity of the drive. I've re-formatted the drive, just to be sure. But when I get to 137 gigabytes, I begin to get error messages. 3) I'm running the latest version of Intel Application Accelerator. 4) Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools software will not run properly on my computer. It always crashes in Windows. And that's too bad, because this software is *supposed* to provide access the the drive's full capacity. 5) Western Digital's Lifeguard Diagnostics software reports the capacity of the physical drive is 137 gigabytes. It also reports the *logical* size of the drive as 244.20 gigabytes. Now why is that? I really thought reformatting the drive was going to fix things -- it took close to 2 hours to reformat the thing. I figured that was about 250 gigabytes. But nope, that didn't do it. I'm still stuck at 137 gigabytes. Please, somebody, I need help. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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The problem turned out to be that I needed to re-install WinXP SP-1. I
have a triple-boot system, Win98, Win2K, WinXP, and it eventually occurred to me I could try accessing the drive out of Win2K. Worked like a charm -- I loaded it up with over 170 gigabytes and had no problems at all. Then I rebooted into WinXP and it reported the files on the drive were corrupted. So today I've clean-installed WinXP SP-1, and it can use the 250 gigabyte drive just fine -- over 170 gigabytes, anyway. Now what happened to my previous installation of SP-1 that made it unable to use the big drive? I have no idea. Bill Anderson Bill Anderson wrote: I've posted on this before, but now I've become desperate. I have a new Western Digital 250 gigabyte drive that I'm trying to run on a WinXP SP1 system, Asus P4T-E mbo. Is anybody else out there running a large drive on a P4T-E? So far I've been unsuccessful, so if you can do it, I'd appreciate hearing how you made it work. When I tried to copy large amounts of data to the drive this afternoon, I got up to the 137 gigabyte limit, and all files beyond that were reported as "corrupted." Here's what I've done: 1) The Asus P4T-E motherboard is flashed to version 1005e. According to documentation, that's supposed to make the mbo support drives larger than 137 gigabytes -- 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA). And in fact, the BIOS recognizes the drive size as 250 gigabytes, and indicates LBA support. Everything *looks* good in the BIOS. 2) I'm running WinXP SP1. I've researched Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 30313 and upgraded Atapi.sys to the correct version. I've used X-Setup Pro to insure the registry contains the proper EnableBigLba value, even though KBA 30313 says that isn't necessary with SP1. Windows Explorer says the drive's capacity is 250,056,704,000 bytes (232 gigabytes). Yep, WinXP *says* I can access the full capacity of the drive. I've re-formatted the drive, just to be sure. But when I get to 137 gigabytes, I begin to get error messages. 3) I'm running the latest version of Intel Application Accelerator. 4) Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools software will not run properly on my computer. It always crashes in Windows. And that's too bad, because this software is *supposed* to provide access the the drive's full capacity. 5) Western Digital's Lifeguard Diagnostics software reports the capacity of the physical drive is 137 gigabytes. It also reports the *logical* size of the drive as 244.20 gigabytes. Now why is that? I really thought reformatting the drive was going to fix things -- it took close to 2 hours to reformat the thing. I figured that was about 250 gigabytes. But nope, that didn't do it. I'm still stuck at 137 gigabytes. Please, somebody, I need help. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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Trent© wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:50:15 -0500, Bill Anderson wrote: The problem turned out to be that I needed to re-install WinXP SP-1. I have a triple-boot system, Win98, Win2K, WinXP, and it eventually occurred to me I could try accessing the drive out of Win2K. Worked like a charm -- I loaded it up with over 170 gigabytes and had no problems at all. Then I rebooted into WinXP and it reported the files on the drive were corrupted. So today I've clean-installed WinXP SP-1, and it can use the 250 gigabyte drive just fine -- over 170 gigabytes, anyway. Now what happened to my previous installation of SP-1 that made it unable to use the big drive? I have no idea. Bill Anderson What program did you initially use to format the new, big drive? Initially I tried WinXP. Then I tried Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools. Neither worked under WinXP, and neither was ever going to work, I think, until I re-installed WinXP SP-1. Something I'd done had screwed with WinXP. I guess I'll never know just what. At least I hope the problem doesn't recur. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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