Hard disk Bigger than 137 GB

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Win2k Sp4
I have a WD 160 drive.....it came with a controller
card...I have tried the drive with card and without....I
can see it in windows but it will not format. I have also
added a key to the registry to support such a drive. I
have tried as primary, master, dual, blah, blah balh. What
is the friggin problem.
 
Even if you didn't have BigLba enabled, you should still be able to format,
though only up to 137gb.
If you cannot format, it might tend to suggest something more fundamental.
Exactly what model drive is it?
WD drives don't normally(?) come with a controller card as part of the kit,
so what card is it?
Is this a SATA drive perchance?
'You can see the drive in Win.' - how, disk management?
The drive is correctly identified in the bios?
David
 
I just bought one of these myself, if you want it to be
the same as your old boot drive, install the data
lifegaurd tools on your old drive, before installing the
new drive. Then install the drive without the controller
card, set both drives {old C: and new 160} to cable
select, put 160 on the slave connector on the cable and
use the data lifegaurd software, to set it up. Tell the
software you want it to be a boot device, and it will take
care of everything for you {setting up scaled partitions,
ghosting the OS, etc.}. Once that gets done, swap the
cable to the 160 on the master connector, and do whatever
with the old drive. {I put mine on the slave connector
formatted it and use it for user file storage.}
 
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