200gb hard drive
 

Hi,
I have just purchased a 200 gb hard drive, but when I come to formatt it, it only shows up as a 131gb, any ideas :)

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Name/make/etc?

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

You havent really given us enough information to say.

What OS are you using?
What File System is on the Drive?
What mother board do you use?

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Er, the drive is a Maxtor 200gb with 8mb of cache, it will be used as a slave drive on a Win XP Pro system, and I have tried to formatt this drive on 2 machines one of which is only a few months old, I only want format ie no operating system,

Thanks,

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What file system did you format the drive with? if I remember right FAT32 has a limit of 130GB so that could be your problem.

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Reformat it using NTFS if thats the case.
AFAIKR that has a limit of 4 tb ish.

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Or split the drive in half - 100Gb either side.

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Couldn't this be a 48-bit LBA issue?

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Sounds like you have an older motherboard that is only capable of addressing 136 GB of HDD. Is your original HDD 4 or 5 GB?

You can fix this with a new PC, or buying a PCI IDE controller card and putting that in a free slot.

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

would the older machine succesfully run xp pro though :erm:

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Yeah Yeah, should have read the whole thread first. Thought I would chip in first as this is why I bought the 120 GB Maxtor, not bigger for my W98SE server type PC.

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

i might be wrong , it was just a thought :D :D :D

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Sorry, I have been struggling with a non working a/drive, will have to swap it with my son's machine ! I have not been able to format the drive but I have found a utility on the Maxtor web site that might, but I need my a:\ drive working so that I can make a boot disc, it never rain's but it poors

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Why would you need a boot disk to format from Windows XP Pro?

Re: 200gb hard drive
 

Read the thread :( the Maxtor utility comes on a floppy...

Although I happen to think this is BIOS related, try updating the BIOS (WITH CARE!) or checking the settings, put the IDE detection on Auto if you haven't already.