JesseJ1935 Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 I have recently fitted a 160GB Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 hard drive. When I installed it I followed Maxtors instructions and used Max Blast 4 and the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler. Despit this my computer insists that it is only 127GB. Hunting round for a solution I found there was an Atapi patch available from Microsoft which would supposedly fix the problem, it also had a later driver number than the one installed. After downloading it I tried to install it but it would not, giving the reason that SP2 was already installed. I'm running XP Home, BTW. I've been on to Maxtor about this, their reply being to contact the motherboard makers, ASUS, to see if there was an updated BIOS, alternatively fit a UDMA Controller Card. So I got in touch with ASUS. Their reply was that the board should already be 48 bit compliant and if it was not recognising the hard drive size then there was nothing I could do about it as this problem occurs with some Windows installations. They did not comment on fitting a UDMA Card. As this has now got beyond my expertise, at least for the time being, I would be grateful if any of you techies out there can come up with the solution. Otherwise it looks as though I'll only be able to use 127GB instead of the whole lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 Take a look here. Got a big drive? With 48-bit LBA, Ultra133 TX2 supports drives larger than 137 GBhttp://www.planetmicro.co.uk/product_info....ockcode=M002581 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 It may just be the difference between the way windows counts sizes and the way the manufacturer does.This computer has a "120GB" hard drive, but windows sees it as 111GB. My old computer had a "40GB" drive, which was 38GB under windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseJ1935 Posted April 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Many thanks for your replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 I remember this being an issue with pre-SP1 installations. But as you said, you have service pack 2.Try this:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...Ben-us%3B303013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Maxtor also supplies this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseJ1935 Posted April 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Thank you Scarecrow Man, but as I said in my original post, I've already tried both. The Microsoft fix, which is a later Atapi driver than the one installed, will not install as SP2 is already installed. As for the Maxtor ig Drive Enabler I used that as per Maxtor's instructions when I fitted the HD. Incidentally, I've had another look in BIOS and the drive is recognised there as 163GB so it would appear to be a Microsoft problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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