adding 2nd hard drive to xp pro

[Daarkone]

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
Biosual (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

 

[ceh4702]

Try a repair install.

You may have to go into maxblast and use that software to add it.

Personally I hate maxblast because it writes something to the first part of the drive that you can not get rid of easily. This sounds like a BIOS Limitation of your motherboard. What Maxblast does is it makes an overlay on the first part of the hard drive and lets you split a hard drive up into small enough partitions for the BIOS to look at them as separate partitions on the same hard drive.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[linney]

Any help here?

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...+drive+34gb%2Bwindows%2Bxp&btnG=Google+Search

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...+drive+34gb%2Bwindows%2Bxp&btnG=Google+Search

 

[Numbnortel]

sound like Bios Limit but are u using the correct 40 80pin cable I dont remember which one bt it is very fine ribs compared to the floppy drive cable .? I had that problem in the past.