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Using more than 128 mb on my newly installed 2nd HD in w2000

by ezrider Sep 18, 2005 1:24AM PDT

I only wish I would have read Charlie's answer BEFORE I installed my new 160 mb drive as a Slave on my Windows 2000 system. Great article!

I have my new drive up and running. I formatted the new drive in Windows 2k, but it only formatted 128 mb of usable space on the 160 mb HD. When I go into Disk Management, I see 25 mb as "Unallocated". Can I remove the partition from the 128 mb, or do I have to just create a new partition for the 25 mb of unallocated space? Partitioning is so confusing!

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I had same issue

by leaglebob Sep 20, 2005 2:44PM PDT

I went to Maxtor's website and they have a tool to download and execute that solves this issue allowing for single partitions above 128.

Seagate tech help was no help at all on this issue although it seems a very common one. Still--call your drive maker's tech support and see if it might be something else. The same tool from Seagate's website either didn't work or turned out to be a link to the Maxtor website.

Post back if need be.///bobbo.

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by linkit Sep 20, 2005 3:36PM PDT

Reference: 48BitLBA.com
48-bit LBA Technology
48-bit LBA and Windows 2000

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