Only 131GB recognized

[MatthewMaes]

I'm aware of the situation with having a 160GB drive and it only seeing 137 GB there.

But I though the Asus K8V SE Deluxe was built for more? Or am I wrong.

I just got that board and the AMD64 3200+

Sweet, I have to say. Do I need my addon card, and then would I still be able to make this my primary drive? Let me know. As I'm trying to install XP. If I install with it only seeing 137GB am I screwed later?

Thx

 

[MatthewMaes]

And I'm considering splitting into 40GB drives, and having 3 or so. Yes I know its not 160GB, so I'll do 50GB drives instead I guess!

 

[JetBlack69]

try putting it on the raid controller, it might see it. If you do try that, make sure you have a floppy disk ready with the drivers for the raid contorller, hit F6 when the setup tells you to.

EDIT: whoa, assuming the SE Deluxe has that

<--- has the Deluxe version

 

[InlineFive]

1. You need to use WinXP SP1 or later. If you can slipstream it that will make this much easier.
2. You also need to use NTFS. FAT/32 will do no good.

-Por

EDIT: D'oh! I told you the fixes but not why! You need the above because the older versions don't support 48-Bit addressing needed for drives over 137GB.

 

[MatthewMaes]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69
try putting it on the raid controller, it might see it. If you do try that, make sure you have a floppy disk ready with the drivers for the raid contorller, hit F6 when the setup tells you to.

But I won't be running Raid, so it wont work? or what?

 

[MatthewMaes]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
1. You need to use WinXP SP1 or later. If you can slipstream it that will make this much easier.
2. You also need to use NTFS. FAT/32 will do no good.

-Por

I am aware of both of these issues. But I'm doing a fresh install with the 160GB drive. It just isn't recognized as a 160 so I'm wondering if I need to put in my controller card, or can I get away without it?

 

[InlineFive]

That's because you are using "Vanilla" WinXP which can't recognize the whole drive because it lacks 48-Bit addressing. A motherboard that new will support 48-Bit addressing, the only hold back is the OS. That's why I recommended slipstreaming SP1 into the install so it would see the whole drive off the bat.

 

[Crusty]

You should be fine, once you install SP1 windows should recognize the rest of the drive. So when you install Windows just create one 50gb partition. Then update windows all the way, install drivers etc. etc. then do the rest of your partitions. Should work fine

 

[MatthewMaes]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
You should be fine, once you install SP1 windows should recognize the rest of the drive. So when you install Windows just create one 50gb partition. Then update windows all the way, install drivers etc. etc. then do the rest of your partitions. Should work fine

I'll just partition 50GB and leave the rest unpartioned and deal with it later. What's the worst that happens, I have to reformat and reinstall? Lol

Thanks guys!

 

[Sid59]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

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you can also edit the registry, dl a reg entry and install it .. up to you.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
1. You need to use WinXP SP1 or later. If you can slipstream it that will make this much easier.
2. You also need to use NTFS. FAT/32 will do no good.

-Por

EDIT: D'oh! I told you the fixes but not why! You need the above because the older versions don't support 48-Bit addressing needed for drives over 137GB.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using FAT32 on a partition that requires 48-bit LBA to access. Just make sure that your system BIOS and all your OS disk drivers support 48-bit LBA properly. I have a 160GB single FAT32 partition on my WD on a Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller card, and no problem in any of the OSes that I multi-boot to.

 

[MatthewMaes]

I partitioned 60GB and left the rest. Installed XP and went to SP1 and then went and had all my space available

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
1. You need to use WinXP SP1 or later. If you can slipstream it that will make this much easier.
2. You also need to use NTFS. FAT/32 will do no good.

-Por

EDIT: D'oh! I told you the fixes but not why! You need the above because the older versions don't support 48-Bit addressing needed for drives over 137GB.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using FAT32 on a partition that requires 48-bit LBA to access. Just make sure that your system BIOS and all your OS disk drivers support 48-bit LBA properly. I have a 160GB single FAT32 partition on my WD on a Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller card, and no problem in any of the OSes that I multi-boot to.

Perhaps he meant something about the limit on FAT32 for XP when creating/formatting the partitions. XP can only format up to a 32GB partition in fat32. NTFS > FAT32 anyhow.

 

[Yanagi]

XP can format a partition larger than 32 GM XP formatted my 120 gb partition no problem