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Maxtor 300gb only showing 128gb

Mar 9, 2005 7:11PM PST

I have a Maxtor ata Diamondmax 300gb drive that only shows 128gb in windows XP (bios shows full 300gb)
I have been on the maxtor website & tried the big drive enabler & other apps. they have to try.
I have tried the motherboard bios update (abit IC7-p4) with no affect. There is no Intel application accelerator available for my Intel chipset (p4) It has been suggested to install a IDE ATA controller card, but that would be the last resort.
Any ideas would be welcome - Thanks

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This and more is ..
Mar 9, 2005 7:39PM PST

Noted at http://48bitlba.com but the biggest issue is your XP CD. Only XP SP1 (and better yet SP2) will show the full drive size during setup.

It's a well known issue with the original XP.

Bob

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XP SP2
Mar 9, 2005 8:00PM PST

I have updated to SP2 - do I need to re-intall with a newer version of XP that allredy includes SP1/SP2
Thanks

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Hmm..
Mar 9, 2005 8:23PM PST

That issue is noted at the 48bitlba site, but in short, with a stock XP CD (no SP1) when you start with that CD, you can only partition up to that size.

Later, after SP1/SP2, you can use the disk/drive management and create another parition, then format it as another drive.

Until you get your XP SP2 CD, do not force this issue with Partition Magic or other tools since your Recover Console and tools can't fix a XP system that has the windows boot OS on an over 127GB partition.

Bob

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separate update?
Mar 9, 2005 10:43PM PST

Isn't there a separate update for the drive support? I have a 160gb harddrive and no SP2. Don't remember what I did back then though...

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Yes. It was called SP1.
Mar 10, 2005 11:03AM PST

But you still should never create an over 127GB boot drive until you obtain or make your XP SP1 bootable CD.

Bob

PS. This was noted at 48bitlba.com. Can I ask if you are reading that site?

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Sorted
Mar 11, 2005 12:44AM PST

Problem solved as suggested - using the disk/drive management and created another parition, then formated it as another drive. It was there all along as unpartitioned space since upgrading the service packs.

Thanks

Pete