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Number : 463 Date : 2001-07-27 Author : james sadler Subject : Re: Problem with an 80GB disk Size(KB) : 5
--- Gabe Fineman wrote: > This is a common problem faced by all hard drive > manufacturers and each has > its own solution in the form of special drivers to > overcome this BIOS > limitation. Without it, they would sell very few > large drives. Some drivers > (like the IBM drivers) actually sit on the hard > drive and some others sit in > the CPU. Maxtor's are a special version of > Drive-Guide by StorageSoft and is > available at > http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/software/maxblast/default.htm > We > have never actually needed to use the Maxtor > solution, but have had no > problems at all with the IBM programs. > > -Gabe Fineman > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kan Yabumoto [mailto:tech.xxcopy@d...] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:04 PM > To: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [xxcopy] Problem with an 80GB disk > > > > I've been here to answer questions to other members. > Now, it is my turn to post my first question. > > Background---- > > My XXCOPY test station is loaded with many Windows > versions > --- a lot more than the standard dual booting > system. I create > a boot diskette for each windows environment which > does not > use any of the files in the root directory. It > depends only > on the corresponding \Winxxx directory which > supplies the > necessary DLL and other good stuff. There is no > problem > sharing the common directories such as \Program > Files\ and > \My Documents\. I found this technique much better > than the > SystemCommander (which I tried but did not work on > some newer > environment --- basically, it tries to rename/copy > certain > files in the root directory which is not very > elegant albeit > it works when the environment is fully under control > of the > tool). Anyway, the standard dual-boot setting is > for WinXP > and WinME. Using a diskette for a particular > version of > Windows, I can choose Win95b, Win98, Win98Se, > Win98SE-Japanese, > Win2000, etc. (Alas, the latest addition, WinXP-Pro > forced me > to temporarily remove the Win2000 directory). The > disk is > full with so many windows versions, I decided that > what I > need is a larger disk for the test machine... > > I will write a complete report on the technique I'm > using > to do this. There are lots of advantage making a > special > boot disk which does not use the root directory > files. > The problem is usually the boot sector whose > contents > are different from Win9x to NT/2000. Anyway... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The following is a message I just posted in the > newsgroup at > > comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage > > While I'm waiting for replies from somebody, let me > repeat > what I said in the post. > > ================================================================ > > I just bought a Maxtor 80GB EIDE drive and my 3 year > old TYAN > motherboard (Trinity 100) BIOS did not recognize the > drive. > First I thought it was a Dead-On-Arrival case, I got > an exchange > from the store. The second unit was the same. The > drive has a > funny label for the jumper setting for 2.1GB limit. > When I put > the jumper, my BIOS finally recognized the drive but > as a 32GB > drive. When I select manual setting mode for the > disk parameter > and enter combination of number which amounts to the > capacity > which exceeds 32GB, the BIOS setting screen freezes. > In Win98SE, > the FDISK works but treats the drive as a 32GB disk. > > In short, it seems that the BIOS and the rest of the > system does > not accept a drive larger than 32GB. Is there any > such limit? > Admittedly, my motherboard is 3 years old and it > supports only > ATA33 (not even ATA66 while the drive runs at > ATA100). Are recent > motherboard's BIOS capable of handling a hard disk > larger than > 32GB? I don't see anybody mentioning the barrier. > Does anybody > know of suc barrier and how to deal with it? Of > course, if the > barrier is real, there is no reason for me to spend > twice as much > (I paid $240) while I can buy a 30 GB disk for $95 > or so... > > Any suggestion will be appreciated. > > Kan Yabumoto. > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Ken I strongly suspect that the Fdisk or format program that you are using is the root of your trouble. Check for versions of format.com and fdisk.com that are up to the task. I recall fighting the same war that you are now faced with and it is a huge pain in the rump. Be very, very carefull and disconnect all but the one hard drive that you are working with. When you are installing a new drive Win98 tends to assign temp drive letters and it can get confused and see a second hard drive as a d: partition on your first drive. It tends to format your d drive by accident and you will loose any data backed up on your second drive. I eventually found an fdisk and format that would do the entire disk without error and I wish I could tell you where I found them. Backups to cdrom are life savers as loss of second hard drive backups have now happened to me on two occasions. Can xxcopy span over several cds? or must one manually separate our drives into clusters that would fit. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
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