Large Drive Data Corruption

[Ben]

I'm running Win2K with SP4 and 2 Maxtor 160GB drives. I
can successfully create and format partitions in the
128GB+ range, but whenever Windows accesses anything in
that upper area, the whole drive gets corrupted.
Specifically, partitions at the top.

I had read that SP3 and above were supposed to break the
128GB barrier, but this is a repeating issue for me. I
don't think it's my BIOS since other OS's are able to read
and write fine in those areas.

Any ideas?

 

[Pat [MSFT]]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Basically, you can see corruption if the registry key that enables the large
LBA is missing.

Pat

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Ben.

See these two year-old articles about "Big Drives" (over ~138 GB):

Big Drives
http://www.maxtor.com/en/technologies/big_drives/

Live Large with Big Drives
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,519303,00.asp

Or search Google for later articles. It shows over 7,000 hits on "big
drives" today.

RC