Strange Maxtor Drive Install Trouble

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Ken

Hi. I'm running XP SP1 on a Dell Dimmension 8400. I purchased the PC
with a Seagate 160GB SATA harddrive. That works fine. Recently, I
purchased and installed a second (non boot) drive. That one is a
Maxtor SATA 250GB drive.

Maxtor has software used to format the drive called MaxBlast 3. When I
run that software, I get a message that says that it needs to update my
registry to support a drive bigger than 137GB. I don't understand why
it is saying this, since I already have a drive which works and is
160GB.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Ken
 
Previously Ken said:
Hi. I'm running XP SP1 on a Dell Dimmension 8400. I purchased the PC
with a Seagate 160GB SATA harddrive. That works fine. Recently, I
purchased and installed a second (non boot) drive. That one is a
Maxtor SATA 250GB drive.
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Maxtor has software used to format the drive called MaxBlast 3. When I
run that software, I get a message that says that it needs to update my
registry to support a drive bigger than 137GB. I don't understand why
it is saying this, since I already have a drive which works and is
160GB.
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Probably MaxBlast is unaware of SP1 (which, I think, makes XP aware
of larger disks in general). If so don't use MaxBlast, since
it is not needed.

Arno
 
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