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Recognizing a 200GB HDD

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LeChuck

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I've got a 200GB Maxtor hard drive and for it to be recognized I have to install Maxtor's Dynamic Disk Overdrive which boots just after the bios but before Windows XP. The problem is that I was messing around with my fsb and had to reset my bios by removing the battery and Dynamic Disk Overdrive was deleted. Unfortunately, the Maxblast software that Maxtor provided with the drive and on their website will only install DDO when I format and partition the drive. Now it's not as simple as just reinstalling DDO because for whatever reason, the Maxblast software Maxtor provides with the drive will only install DDO when you perform a fresh reformat and repartition of the drive. I don't want to do that as I would lose all of my data. Fortunately, with the Maxblast software I was able to make a DDO boot floppy. It works fine, but it's a bit annoying having to remember to put the floppy in for the boot because of course I have to take it out so that Windows can load. I was wondering then if it's possible to put the files that are on the floppy, and there are only two, somewhere on my boot drive so that they load off of it rather than the floppy. If this is possible? If so, where should I put them?

Thanks all.
 
you shouldn't have to use DDO unless your motherboard is older than Father Time...

Just flash your BIOS to the latest version, and it should support > 137GB hard drives just fine.
 
the answer is yes the trick is getting them there
you dont normally have access to those sectors from an OS
there are probably some DOS tools to do that, but in truth, youd still probably backup the data first at which point its just as easy to reformat

you should have backup in any event
and as jagec pointed out unless the BIOS doesnt support it...
and even if it doesnt, its all of $10 or so for a PCI IDE controller card (which would use SCSI drivers and the 137GB barrier magically disappears regardless of the mobos BIOS)
 
I've got a Giga-byte GA-7DXR+ which is Socket A. I thought I was running the most current bios, but I'll double check.

As for backing up my files anyway, I do, but I still don't want to have to reinstall all my programs and copy over all that data everytime my bios gets out of hand and needs to be reset. Do you have FarCry? At 5cds, it takes a solid 15-20 minutes to install.

Thanks for the help, I do appreciate it, but I'm going to have to find a way to get around this.

*I just checked and I do have the most current (6/9/03) bios for my board, so if anyone knows how I might get these files to boot at start up, let me know. Thanks again.*
 
look you really dont want to be using Dynamic Drive Overlays, they suck and I do mean suck
they will keep you from using Ghost or any other imaging and cloning aps, there are compatibility issues, ect

and manually editing your boot sector is as likely to fubar your install as anything I can think of

there is a simple and cheap solution which I already pointed out
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-102-002&depa=0
that one is $30 but if you hunt others up you should be able to drop that to $10 or so

but if you insist read the DDO link above and try to figure out how to use PTS-Disk Editor
 
Originally posted by LeChuck
I've got a Giga-byte GA-7DXR+ which is Socket A. I thought I was running the most current bios, but I'll double check.

As for backing up my files anyway, I do, but I still don't want to have to reinstall all my programs and copy over all that data everytime my bios gets out of hand and needs to be reset. Do you have FarCry? At 5cds, it takes a solid 15-20 minutes to install.
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you don't have to reinstall ANYTHING when you flash/reset the BIOS...it doesn't touch your software at all.
 
yeh, I didnt get how resetting the CMOS did anything to the DDO
you sure its not a new boot order or something the DDO isnt in the BIOS

but in any event, dont use the DDO
 
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