137G limit Q

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Hello all,

I'm new to the board, as I'm having some problems with a hard drive and
though this would be a good place to turn.

The HD is a 160 Gig Maxtor that I've had hooked up for 6 months or sop.
All along it has been operating at 137G, dur to the problem that windows
experiences with this.

I have just recently installed another Maxtor 120G, so I figured it was a
good time to move everything on the 160 to the new drive, so I could
reformat it and patch XP pro, so that it will recognise the full drive
size.

None of this worked; even after formatting after I applied the patch, I
still comes up as 137.

I then figured it was something that I could control from the bios, but
when I got in there I couldn't see it, as it is external through a USB 2.0
port.

Any thoughts or ideas on how I might fix this?

Specs are;

P4 2.53
1.5 G RAM
Gigabyte 8INXP Mobo
60G Maxtor (Master)
120G Maxtor (Slave)
160G Maxtor (USB2)
Windows XP Pro
 
Have you just formatted the previously partitioned drive or have you
actually repartitioned it to 160GB? If you just reformat you will still
have your original 137.
 
I was wondering if that was maybe the reason; I'll try that and let you
know how it goes. Thx for the help.

A
 
lol

that was it.

Now I have a 120 with all my data in the usb box and it doesn't support the
dynamic disk format I used. *sigh*

all good though; the 160 was recognised at that size and I was able to use
partition magic to open up the space. Now I just have to swap em back,
trsfr the data, and swap em back again; how fun.

Thx again for the knowhow; I'm sure I'll be around again sometime.

Peace

A
 
I would assume that an external USB hard drive is not limited by the
motherboard bios (137GB).
Would not an external USB hard drive use a software bios ?
 
A USB enclosure has a board with 16-bit processor and firmware to convert USB
commands to IDE.
 
A said:
lol

that was it.

Now I have a 120 with all my data in the usb box and it doesn't support the
dynamic disk format I used. *sigh*

all good though; the 160 was recognised at that size and I was able to use
partition magic to open up the space. Now I just have to swap em back,
trsfr the data, and swap em back again; how fun.

Thx again for the knowhow; I'm sure I'll be around again sometime.
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Yup. Very likely today already.
 
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