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Adding 2nd Hard drive to XP pro Problems ....

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Daarkone

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Mar 2, 2004
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Ok this is driving me insane

I am trying to add a 2nd hard drive to my xp pro system, Currently Drive C is a Maxtor 160 Ultra, When trying to add the 2nd drive (same drive) it only picks up as a 34 gig drive. (I got 2nd hard drive to back up to using Ghost)

I have done everything i could possibly think of. I installed xppro on the 2nd hd and it worked fine read as a 160g drive I made it the 2nd hd and the orginal HD did not pick it up saidd that I had to reformat it. Even Ghost and the Max Blast 3 soft ware read the drive as 34 gigs while in XP but outside it reads as a 160 (booting from max blast 3 disk)

Only thing I can think of my bios setting have C: as being auto detected and then d: is USER with set heads cylinders etc. I have tried to change it to Auto like C: but when I get out of the setting pages it reverts back to User setting.

Any help and I would be grateful more than you know! I just want to ghost my drive put it up and if my hd crashes I will not have to spend a day reinstalling everything.


Specs:
Athlon XP 2200
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-7VRXP
Bios:Dual (updated to latest version)
1024mb DDR 4400
C:HD Maxtor Ultra 160
D: (cant get it to read 160)
OS: XP Pro
Graphics: Asylum 5700 Ultra
 
Howdy:

If you fomatted the hdd as FAT32, then that is all that will be seen due to FAT32 limitations on XP.. Try formatting the drive as NTFS if you already haven't..

Murray
 
Are you sure you're saving the bios settings when you exit? That sound like the problem.

(I'm assuming your bios has no problems with a drive that size & you're not using maxblast's overlay capability to get large drives recognised).
 
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