GA-7VAXP and 160Gb drive.

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Just purchased a 160 Gb drive which is partitioned into many smaller drives.
Unable to see the last partition and the last one that can been seen is
smaller than it should be. I understand there is a 137Gb limit and you need
48 bit addressing to read over this capacity. I also have GA-7VT600 - L
board which is just the same. No mention of this problem on BIOS updates.
Methods suggested by MS do not work. Has anybody been able to overcome this
limitation of 137Gb and, if so, can they advise how. TIA.

 

[Jim]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:11:23 +0100, "John Hardaker"
<john@<junk>jhardaker.plus.com> wrote:

>Just purchased a 160 Gb drive which is partitioned into many smaller drives.
>Unable to see the last partition and the last one that can been seen is
>smaller than it should be. I understand there is a 137Gb limit and you need
>48 bit addressing to read over this capacity. I also have GA-7VT600 - L
>board which is just the same. No mention of this problem on BIOS updates.
>Methods suggested by MS do not work. Has anybody been able to overcome this
>limitation of 137Gb and, if so, can they advise how. TIA.
>

I am using the same board. It has run everything I've thrown at it so
far. 40G, 60G, 100G, 200G, and now 250G. Look at the utilities for
your problem. I run Win98 and Suse Linux with no problems.
Jim

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Thank you Jim.

With your encouragement I began to look further and found a (the) solution.

I had originally set up the partitions with fdisk, and installed XP onto C:.
Windows Explorer showed the rest of the drives which were then formatted.
Service pack 1 is required for 48 bit addressing - so it says but I could
not see the last drive after installing that.

In XP go into Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management /
Disk Management and there I could see the partition which had no drive
letter and was not formatted. Formatted the drive - right click on partition
space - and gave it a drive letter after moving the CD drives along one
letter. I have now got the drive and the one before it, which was not
complete, but could not change the Volume Label. It seems a re-start is
required to finish the job.

I pass this on for anybody who may be interested.

Thought: Is there a later version of fdisk for these larger drives? I
remember the whole drive size was wrong in fdisk - the one from Windows ME -
but it created the partitions OK.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

> John Hardakerwrote:

> Thought: Is there a later version of fdisk for these larger drives?
I
> remember the whole drive size was wrong in fdisk - the one from
Windows ME -
> but it created the partitions OK.

I don't know if this has been answered since it was posted. {It came
up in a google search}

You need to enable this in the registry. I don't have the info
available and I'm not going to search for it. The utility linked
below {maxtor... though it works for anything.} will change the
setting for you.

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/?epi_menuItemID=3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068&epi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&epi_baseMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=11

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