Maxtor 160gig hard drive in XP

[Paul Hepburn]

I am trying to install the new Maxtor 160gig hard drive
on my AMD-K6 3D Processor 501MHZ 320MB of Ram with
Windows XP Professional version 2020 service pack 1 and I
am getting the following message (one of the file drivers
installed for the devise is invalid). If some one could
please help me out as I have been trying to fix this for
a few days now. Error code 28

 

[Alex Sidline]

-----Original Message-----
I am trying to install the new Maxtor 160gig hard drive
on my AMD-K6 3D Processor 501MHZ 320MB of Ram with
Windows XP Professional version 2020 service pack 1 and I
am getting the following message (one of the file drivers
installed for the devise is invalid). If some one could
please help me out as I have been trying to fix this for
a few days now. Error code 28
.

Just a guess. I have a MAXTOR 120 GB and it installed
OK. Somewhere I recall that the maximum size is 132GB. It
may be in your MAXTOR documents. Check that and possibly
their web page.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Paul.

Most likely you need to update your BIOS for "big drives" - 48-bit
addressing - for any drive larger than about 137 GB. See these two
references to learn about this development:

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

Live Large with Big Drives
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,696755,00.asp

For more, just ask Google about "big drives".

RC