Large Hard Drive Problems

[MonteroGraves]

Today I got a 250 gig Maxtor DiamondMax Plus hard drive. I formatted and installed windows XP in it. I looked at the drive's properties and windows detected the proper size of the hard drive, but it also said that 110 gigs had already been used! So I figured that it was the >137 gig hard drive problem so I installed SP1, the latest Nforce drivers for my mobo and ran Maxtor's Big Drive Enabler program. The 48bit thing was enabled, and Maxtor's diagnostic program said the hard drive should be working fine but Windows still says that 110gigs has been used. Windows has always detected the proper size of the hard drive but says 110 gigs has been used. It's all one partition also, there isn't an unpartition spaced. Is this the same problem as the greater than 137 gig problem? I tried using partition magic to break up the hard drive but I can't the primary partition less than 110 gigs because Windows thinks I have used that much, which I haven't, from Windows XP, SP1, and the mobo and vid drivers only come to less than 2 gigs. I'm not experienced with drives this large, so if anyone can suggest some other things I can do it'd be much appreciated.

 

[krizzle]

If you spent your time looking at the stickes in this area...

you would see that there's a link to
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1026129864#post1026129864
that solves your problems.

Tell us if it worked.

 

[Ice Czar]

Hmmm....my evil twin stikes again

delete the partition, recreate one or more and reformat it\them
from disk management
(Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc)

then if needed repeat but first zero the HDD with the manufacturers diagnostic
its possible that you installed a dynamic drive overlay via Maxtor's Big Drive Enabler
you dont need that if the mobo supprts 48bit LBA natively