Installing 200GB hard drive to Maxtor Controller card, will it see the whole drive with SP2?

[coolred]

Basically what the title says, will the whole drive been seen since i have SP2, or will I need a firmware or BIOS update or something for the card?

 

[jpeyton]

You should see the entire amount.

 

[tart666]

i just did that with a 160GB maxtor, SP2 see whole drive no prob. The card came with the drive tho, perhaps they checked the compatibility or something.

 

[coolred]

Well heres the problem I originally installed and formated the drive before I had the service packs. It formated at 127GB, now when I try to reformat, under the capacity pull down it still says 127GB, and I can't change it or and there is nothing else to choose.

 

[PG2G]

Try repartitioning it, you should find the other space. Either that or kill all of the partitions on the drive and create one new big one.

 

[dethman]

what's the name of your controller card and the firmware?

you might have to repartition to see all 200gb.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: coolred
Well heres the problem I originally installed and formated the drive before I had the service packs. It formated at 127GB, now when I try to reformat, under the capacity pull down it still says 127GB, and I can't change it or and there is nothing else to choose.

You need to repartition the drive to use one big partition. You can partition and reformat using Windows or MSDOS (Fdisk) or you can get a utility such as Partition Magic and repartition on the fly without reformatting.

Good luck

 

[coolred]

Well I now have the drive as the primary slave on the main IDE connector on my motherboard, not on the PCI card any more. I managed to delete the partition on it. Computer managment under administrative tools, says there is 231 or some odd GB unallocated, but when I attempt to format it is telling me the maximum partition size is like 29340MB or something like that. Which seems somewhat familiar, I think that may have been the amount of space I was using on the drive, with like 121GB free. So whats the deal, how do I get my whole drive partitioned?