problem seeing all 200GB of new drive

[dum]

I just put in a maxtor 200GB, but windows only shows 128GB of it. It's partitioned as one large drive and I've already made sure that I have the most recent BIOS for my motherboard installed that should support drives larger than 137GB and I have downloaded a utlilty from maxtor that is supposed to enable 48-bit LBA in the registry, but windows still only shows it as 128GB even after deleting the partion and creating a new one.


any ideas??

here's the setup on my system.

windows xp (sp1 installed)
abit kg7-raid with the DS BIOS installed
drive is currently installed as primary slave on the HPT-370 raid controller.

 

[DarkAmeba]

In computer management, check and see if there is a second partition of unallocated space that shows up. Your extra space may be hiding there

 

[dum]

it's not.

it only shows a single partition of 128GB. I even deleted this partition and created a new one after I installed the update from maxtor and it still only shows a single 128GB partition.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Did you try restarting?

 

[wseyller]

I would say that it has something to do with the 48-bit LBA not working somewhere because the amount of space your getting would be typical in that situation. Does the raid card have ATA100 or ATA133.

 

[Lonyo]

Check Windows help database, for enabling 48-bit LBA in Windows.
Also, update your motherboard BIOS/drivers.

 

[dum]

just needed to run the maxblast utility on the drive again and it showed the whole 200GB.

thanks for the help.