a234576 said:
Thanks for everyones help so far...
Jim.. Did not use the WD software. Visited the MS site which indicated
that as long as you are running SP1 and have the latest atapi driver no
additional software was needed. Had already e-mailed WD and the
response was that they would not answer any questions since the USB
enclosure was not one of thiers.
CS... Also researched the MB on the web, biostar site, etc. and did not
find any specific the board supported 48bit. As far as I could tell the
support was implied at the various sites since the board uses the via
kt333 chip. Also the Astra program reported the capabilities of the MB
Connected the drive direct to the secondary IDE chain and the BIOS does
see it as 250GB. Still had the same problems in XP, only seen as 128GB,
etc.
As I mentioned before the enclosure manufacture instructions specified
setting the hard drive to master/single. This was the setting used
while I had it attached as the sole drive on the ide chain.
Changed the setting to cable select while I still had it connected to
the ide chain and in XP the drive is now seen as 232GB (250GB).
Removed the drive and re-assembled the enclosure while leaving the drive
set to cable select. XP saw the drive as 232gb (250gb).
Zeroed the drive, re-partitioned to ensure it was not reading the prior
configuration made while the drive was on the ide chain. Drive
partitioned as 232gb. Tried to format useing the computer/diskmanagent
tools, both quick and full. Neither would format the drive. Same
symptons, got to the end of the format and bombed.
Had a thought and tried to format the drive by going through my
computer, right-click, format. Drive will format ok using either the
quick or full choice. Went back to the drive management tools and tried
both styles of format. Did not work. Tried the my computer format,
both styles and the drive formats fine.
Tried to verify data by doing multiple backups to the drive until it was
full using the XP backup with verify on. Did not encounter any errors.
Think it might be ok now. Thanks again for the help. Unresolved is the
reason I can format via my computer and not through disk management.
PS - Disk Management format will work on a 100gb drive