windows 2000 cannot read large usb hard drive

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Sean.snv

Any advice is appreciated,

I have a 300GB seagate ata hard drive inside an ACOMdata enclosure (USB
2.0/Firewire). It is formatted fat32 one big 279GB partition. When it
is connected to my computer at home (XP pro) via firewire, I can see
everything. When it is connected to the same machine via usb 2.0,
windows tells me the hard drive is not formatted. A friend of mine
connected the same drive into a linux machine via usb 2 and he saw
everything as well, but he did notice using fdisk that the partition
table said that there was only 127 GBs available.
I need to use this disk at work and all I have at work is usb 2. At
work, I have the same problem as at home (with usb 2), it tells me that
it is not formatted. I have made sure that I have SP4 on this win 2k
machine, the registry key for large hard drives is set to 1. I don't
know what this could be.
Please help.

Sean
 
Any advice is appreciated,

I have a 300GB seagate ata hard drive inside an ACOMdata enclosure (USB
2.0/Firewire). It is formatted fat32 one big 279GB partition. When it
is connected to my computer at home (XP pro) via firewire, I can see
everything. When it is connected to the same machine via usb 2.0,
windows tells me the hard drive is not formatted. A friend of mine
connected the same drive into a linux machine via usb 2 and he saw
everything as well, but he did notice using fdisk that the partition
table said that there was only 127 GBs available.
I need to use this disk at work and all I have at work is usb 2. At
work, I have the same problem as at home (with usb 2), it tells me that
it is not formatted. I have made sure that I have SP4 on this win 2k
machine, the registry key for large hard drives is set to 1. I don't
know what this could be.
Please help.

Sean
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That is the limitation of the OS you can't overcome. The best Win2000 can
recognize is 128GB, and only with SP4 patch!
 
Cheap usb/1394 enclosures use different chips for the two.
The USB chip may have a 137GB limit, but 1394 may not.
If Windows sees a 279GB partition on a 137GB disk, it gets confused.

Not sure how you would test this in Windows, but Linux seems to catch it better.
 
Mike Tomlinson said:
Eh? What have you been smoking today?
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Probably nothing. Probably just the sudden infestation of trolls
in this group that made him overcome his shyness and chip in.
 
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