DriveCopy 20GB HD to 40GB HD on old system?

[SkaarjMaster]

Just tried to give my Mom a new WD 40GB 7200rpm 8MB cache HD today and no luck using DriveCopy 3. The error message I get is the following:

Error #57
Cylinder number is too large for BIOS

Her specs:
Win98SE
P3-500 CPU, 256MB PC100 SDRAM
standard HS/fan (Coolermaster)
Gigabyte GA-6BXC 440BX MB (F4C bios-latest)
ATI Rage Fury 32MB video card
Soundblaster LIVE! Value sound card
WD HD 20GB 5400rpm 2MB cache (15GB free)
ISA ethernet card
300W PS

It didn't work with the BIOS originally on there, so I flashed from F3 to F4C and it still didn't work and got same above error message. I tried with both on Primary IDE, with 20GB on Primary Master and 40GB on Secondary Master only and reverse with no luck. The best I can do is get the 40GB drive recognized with 38.5GB approx. and the 20GB recognized with 1GB for some strange reason. Seems like there must be a 40GB limit or something.

I can't even use PartitionMagic4 to format the new HD because the format won't even light up in the menu to pick. And DOS won't recognize the HD to format it either.

The F4C Bios states that it can recognize up to 75GB, so I'm not sure what's going on. I'm back home now from Mom's house and won't be back there until Christmas. I thought maybe to partition the 40GB in half, hide second half and try again (idea came on drive home, hehe). Any ideas if this will work, other ideas, or what the heck that error means? Thank you.

 

[FreakyGuy]

You can use Ranish's partition manager to copy it but it will partition the new hard drive's first partition to the same size as the old one. Providing the new drive isn't partitioned. Then you'll have to add another partition to the drive or, resize the partition then ruch a chkdsk on it.

Google Ranish partition

 

[bacillus]

Solution: Error 57 Cylinder number is too large for BIOS

Upgrade to a current version of the product that supports drives over 8 GB.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

So, my current version of DriveCopy doesn't support drives over 8GB? Wrong, I'm using the same program on my system with a 20GB HD, 100GB HD and 120GB HD (backup drive for other two) and largest partition is 50GB.

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: SkaarjMaster
So, my current version of DriveCopy doesn't support drives over 8GB? Wrong, I'm using the same program on my system with a 20GB HD, 100GB HD and 120GB HD (backup drive for other two) and largest partition is 50GB.

don't shoot the messenger

 

[SkaarjMaster]

I already looked that up and it didn't make sense at that time either. I've noticed in the past that the error message explanations for DriveCopy and PartitionMagic don't help at all. I had to e-mail someone a couple years ago a bunch of times and had them look at the partition table and the problem was finally solved. All I'm saying is try explain your solution better in the future, like "this is what they said at Symantec" or "I'm not sure what your current version supports but...."

 

[corkyg]

Use DriveCopy 4.0. I do it every week with three computers. It will handle up to 80 GB drives - NTFS no problem.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

Well, the 40GB will just have to wait until her new system in April/May 2004. I tried partitioning it in half and even that didn't work. I can't seem to get the unallocated space partition to hide, so it will only recognize half of it. I can't format it either using fdisk or Partition Magic. Still either in fdisk, partition magic or drivecopy, it only recognizes 1GB of the 20GB HD but all of the 40GB HD. There is a 40GB limit somewhere, but the bios installed says it can recognize 75GB.

I thought partitioning would help, but I seem to be in a catch22 here and I don't want to try driveimage or ghost right now. Oh well, I wash my hands of this problem and will just get her a new XP system later. See Ya!