SATA Maxtor Drive Detection problem

[Solo3021]

I recently bought a SATA 200GB Maxtor Harddrive. While installing the new harddrive, I noticed that Windows Setup only recognized 120GB of the drive. And now that I installed Norton Ghost, things are even stranger.

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The numbers in blue and the numbers in red should be the same (or add up to be the same), but they don't.

So I'm wondering, do I need special drivers since it's so large or since it's SATA? It detects and boots from the harddrive fine. Any ideas?

[JCLW]

Have you updated your motherboard BIOS?

Is 48bit LBA enabled within Windows?

This tool may help: http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm

[dark_15]

Are you running Windows XP without any service packs?

If so, then JCLW's link will help you.

You may have to create another partition to acquire the rest of the unused space. Go to Start -> Run -> "diskmgmt.msc" (minus quotes)
Take a screenshot of that window and post it in this thread. We will then be able to help you further.

Hope that helps! :)

[Quailane]

Is windows enabled to use over 137gb drives? It doesn't look like it.

Use this to help you: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

Install discwizard for windows. It doesn't matter what brand of drives you use.

[Solo3021]

To JCLW-

The mobo is brand new, it's a Gigabyte K8 Triton which fully supports RAID and SATA. The BIOS is completely up to date. And the LBA is fine. Service Pack 1 is installed.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/Solo3021/maxtor3.png

To dark_15-

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When I was installing Windows, it would try to boot from the IDE drive (I have a backup). Drive 0 is the backup IDE drive. Drive 1 is the SATA. I am booting from the SATA. There's another thing that's weird. The IDE is the active drive, yet I boot from the SATA.

To Quailane-

I tried the Disc Wizard. Only works for ATA / SCSI devices.

[Quailane]

To Quailane-

I tried the Disc Wizard. Only works for ATA / SCSI devices.

Wrong. I use it on my drives, and only 1 of them is ATA. It also works with USB and firewire. It doesn't matter the interface really. It goes off of any NTFS, FAT16, and FAT32 partitions that windows detects.

Tell me about your system. Does windows have all drivers?

I don't think that is the problem though because even my windows xp install disks detect all my drives fine, but it may still be possible that that is the problem.

Screw norton ghost, we all know ghosts aren't real.

[JCLW]

Are you running that drive off the nF3 250 controller (good) or the Sil3112 (bad)?

I'd put all your drives on the nF3 controller and disable the Sil and ITE controllers in BIOS myself.

Try SP2 maybe.