Christmas Present New Hard Drive & Controller Card

Good Morning and Merry Christmas.

About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make
sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your
system no problems.

Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new
controller card which worried me as it was Promise and Gateway Country
could never get a Promise card to work. This one has had no problems.

The hard drive is the problem it is only seeing 33.81 GB of the 300 GB.
I have ran every utility I know wrote 0's to it still only seeing 33.81.

I was hoping to connect this to my motherboard and had all my partition
one data one data backup one Drive Image backup, and one test bed think
that I could have 4 at least 70 GB Drives.

Working on scanning 1000's of photo to do slide shows with family and
other destinations.

System Configurations.

Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1
Gateway E-4600 4000762
Processor a Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
Serial Number: IMGB14421406
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001
Drives Memory Modules
201.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
121.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-8000 [CD-ROM drive]
TDK CDRW5200B [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Maxtor 4A300J0 RAMB (33.81 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Data Storage Only
not sure of pin configuation
Maxtor 6Y080L0 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 OS & Programs only
WDC WD1200BB-50CAA1 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 Data & Drive
Image.
512 Megabytes Installed Memory 128 Megabyte Module Size - 4 Installed
Local Drive Volumes
c: (on drive 0) 81.95 GB 69.57 GB free
d: (on drive 1) 60.01 GB 45.98 GB free
h: (on drive 1) 59.98 GB 5.96 GB free
300GB Drive not seen here but is earlier not formated yet.
Network Drives
Controllers Printers
CMD PCI-0649 Ultra DMA IDE Controller Showing Old Controller Card for
some reason.
Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller New controller card.
hp officejet k series on DOT4_001
hp officejet k series fax on DOT4_001
Net2Phone Fax Image Driver on PC2FaxPort
Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 (Gateway) [Display adapter]
Bus Adapters Multimedia
None detected
Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
Creative SBLive! Gameport
Communications Other Devices
GTW V.92 Voicemodem Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
Controller
HP OfficeJet K80 USB
Logitech QuickCam Web
American Power Conversion USB UPS [Joystick]
USB Human Interface Device [Joystick]
General Purpose USB Hub
Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
Logitech USB Camera (Web)
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub

Thanks,
Ron

Did you make sure to partition the drive with NTFS, and format accordingly?
32 GBytes is as large a FAT32 partition as XP can create.



"RDBrimmer" <> wrote in message
news:zyDGb.530520$...
> Good Morning and Merry Christmas.
>
> About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make
> sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your
> system no problems.
>
> Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new
> controller card which worried me as it was Promise and Gateway Country
> could never get a Promise card to work. This one has had no problems.
>
> The hard drive is the problem it is only seeing 33.81 GB of the 300 GB.
> I have ran every utility I know wrote 0's to it still only seeing 33.81.
>
> I was hoping to connect this to my motherboard and had all my partition
> one data one data backup one Drive Image backup, and one test bed think
> that I could have 4 at least 70 GB Drives.
>
> Working on scanning 1000's of photo to do slide shows with family and
> other destinations.
>
> System Configurations.
>
> Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1
> Gateway E-4600 4000762
> Processor a Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
> 8 kilobyte primary memory cache
> 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
> Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
> Serial Number: IMGB14421406
> Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
> BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001
> Drives Memory Modules
> 201.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
> 121.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
> HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-8000 [CD-ROM drive]
> TDK CDRW5200B [CD-ROM drive]
> 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
> Maxtor 4A300J0 RAMB (33.81 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Data Storage Only
> not sure of pin configuation
> Maxtor 6Y080L0 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 OS & Programs only
> WDC WD1200BB-50CAA1 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 Data & Drive
> Image.
> 512 Megabytes Installed Memory 128 Megabyte Module Size - 4 Installed
> Local Drive Volumes
> c: (on drive 0) 81.95 GB 69.57 GB free
> d: (on drive 1) 60.01 GB 45.98 GB free
> h: (on drive 1) 59.98 GB 5.96 GB free
> 300GB Drive not seen here but is earlier not formated yet.
> Network Drives
> Controllers Printers
> CMD PCI-0649 Ultra DMA IDE Controller Showing Old Controller Card for
> some reason.
> Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
> Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
> Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
> Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
> Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
> WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller New controller card.
> hp officejet k series on DOT4_001
> hp officejet k series fax on DOT4_001
> Net2Phone Fax Image Driver on PC2FaxPort
> Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 (Gateway) [Display adapter]
> Bus Adapters Multimedia
> None detected
> Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
> Creative SBLive! Gameport
> Communications Other Devices
> GTW V.92 Voicemodem Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
> Controller
> HP OfficeJet K80 USB
> Logitech QuickCam Web
> American Power Conversion USB UPS [Joystick]
> USB Human Interface Device [Joystick]
> General Purpose USB Hub
> Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
> Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
> Logitech USB Camera (Web)
> USB Root Hub
> USB Root Hub
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>

Edward,

No, I did not I have two 120GB drive partitioned into 57GB with Fat32 so
I thought I would be able to keep them as Fat32, as GW said if I went to
NTSF on my drive I would lose some of me files and would not be able
to revert them back if I was using older programs.

Thanks,
Ron

Edward J. Neth wrote:
> Did you make sure to partition the drive with NTFS, and format accordingly?
> 32 GBytes is as large a FAT32 partition as XP can create.
>
>
>
> "RDBrimmer" <> wrote in message
> news:zyDGb.530520$...
>
>>Good Morning and Merry Christmas.
>>
>>About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make
>>sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your
>>system no problems.
>>
>>Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new
>>controller card which worried me as it was Promise and Gateway Country
>>could never get a Promise card to work. This one has had no problems.
>>
>>The hard drive is the problem it is only seeing 33.81 GB of the 300 GB.
>>I have ran every utility I know wrote 0's to it still only seeing 33.81.
>>
>>I was hoping to connect this to my motherboard and had all my partition
>>one data one data backup one Drive Image backup, and one test bed think
>>that I could have 4 at least 70 GB Drives.
>>
>>Working on scanning 1000's of photo to do slide shows with family and
>>other destinations.
>>
>>System Configurations.
>>
>>Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1
>>Gateway E-4600 4000762
>>Processor a Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
>>8 kilobyte primary memory cache
>>256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
>>Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
>>Serial Number: IMGB14421406
>>Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
>>BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001
>>Drives Memory Modules
>>201.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
>>121.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
>>HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-8000 [CD-ROM drive]
>>TDK CDRW5200B [CD-ROM drive]
>>3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
>>Maxtor 4A300J0 RAMB (33.81 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Data Storage Only
>> not sure of pin configuation
>>Maxtor 6Y080L0 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 OS & Programs only
>>WDC WD1200BB-50CAA1 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 Data & Drive
>>Image.
>>512 Megabytes Installed Memory 128 Megabyte Module Size - 4 Installed
>>Local Drive Volumes
>>c: (on drive 0) 81.95 GB 69.57 GB free
>>d: (on drive 1) 60.01 GB 45.98 GB free
>>h: (on drive 1) 59.98 GB 5.96 GB free
>>300GB Drive not seen here but is earlier not formated yet.
>>Network Drives
>>Controllers Printers
>>CMD PCI-0649 Ultra DMA IDE Controller Showing Old Controller Card for
>>some reason.
>>Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
>>Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller New controller card.
>>hp officejet k series on DOT4_001
>>hp officejet k series fax on DOT4_001
>>Net2Phone Fax Image Driver on PC2FaxPort
>>Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 (Gateway) [Display adapter]
>>Bus Adapters Multimedia
>>None detected
>>Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
>>Creative SBLive! Gameport
>>Communications Other Devices
>>GTW V.92 Voicemodem Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
>>Controller
>>HP OfficeJet K80 USB
>>Logitech QuickCam Web
>>American Power Conversion USB UPS [Joystick]
>>USB Human Interface Device [Joystick]
>>General Purpose USB Hub
>>Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
>>Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
>>Logitech USB Camera (Web)
>>USB Root Hub
>>USB Root Hub
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ron
>>
>
>
>

You cannot create a partition over 32 GBytes as FAT32 with 2000 or XP - you
would need to do that with the Maxtor partitioning utility (which probably
won't work with the drive on a Promise controller), or with a 98 boot disc.
Once the drive is partitioned and formatted, XP/2000 can work with a large
FAT32 partition - but they cannot be used to create one.



"RDBrimmer" <> wrote in message
news:lZHGb.239926$...
> Edward,
>
> No, I did not I have two 120GB drive partitioned into 57GB with Fat32 so
> I thought I would be able to keep them as Fat32, as GW said if I went to
> NTSF on my drive I would lose some of me files and would not be able
> to revert them back if I was using older programs.
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>
> Edward J. Neth wrote:
> > Did you make sure to partition the drive with NTFS, and format
accordingly?
> > 32 GBytes is as large a FAT32 partition as XP can create.
> >
> >
> >
> > "RDBrimmer" <> wrote in message
> > news:zyDGb.530520$...
> >
> >>Good Morning and Merry Christmas.
> >>
> >>About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make
> >>sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your
> >>system no problems.
> >>
> >>Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new
> >>controller card which worried me as it was Promise and Gateway Country
> >>could never get a Promise card to work. This one has had no problems.
> >>
> >>The hard drive is the problem it is only seeing 33.81 GB of the 300 GB.
> >>I have ran every utility I know wrote 0's to it still only seeing 33.81.
> >>
> >>I was hoping to connect this to my motherboard and had all my partition
> >>one data one data backup one Drive Image backup, and one test bed think
> >>that I could have 4 at least 70 GB Drives.
> >>
> >>Working on scanning 1000's of photo to do slide shows with family and
> >>other destinations.
> >>
> >>System Configurations.
> >>
> >>Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1
> >>Gateway E-4600 4000762
> >>Processor a Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
> >>8 kilobyte primary memory cache
> >>256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
> >>Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
> >>Serial Number: IMGB14421406
> >>Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
> >>BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001
> >>Drives Memory Modules
> >>201.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
> >>121.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
> >>HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-8000 [CD-ROM drive]
> >>TDK CDRW5200B [CD-ROM drive]
> >>3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
> >>Maxtor 4A300J0 RAMB (33.81 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Data Storage Only
> >> not sure of pin configuation
> >>Maxtor 6Y080L0 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 OS & Programs only
> >>WDC WD1200BB-50CAA1 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 Data & Drive
> >>Image.
> >>512 Megabytes Installed Memory 128 Megabyte Module Size - 4 Installed
> >>Local Drive Volumes
> >>c: (on drive 0) 81.95 GB 69.57 GB free
> >>d: (on drive 1) 60.01 GB 45.98 GB free
> >>h: (on drive 1) 59.98 GB 5.96 GB free
> >>300GB Drive not seen here but is earlier not formated yet.
> >>Network Drives
> >>Controllers Printers
> >>CMD PCI-0649 Ultra DMA IDE Controller Showing Old Controller Card for
> >>some reason.
> >>Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
> >>Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
> >>Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
> >>Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
> >>Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
> >>WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller New controller card.
> >>hp officejet k series on DOT4_001
> >>hp officejet k series fax on DOT4_001
> >>Net2Phone Fax Image Driver on PC2FaxPort
> >>Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 (Gateway) [Display adapter]
> >>Bus Adapters Multimedia
> >>None detected
> >>Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
> >>Creative SBLive! Gameport
> >>Communications Other Devices
> >>GTW V.92 Voicemodem Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
> >>Controller
> >>HP OfficeJet K80 USB
> >>Logitech QuickCam Web
> >>American Power Conversion USB UPS [Joystick]
> >>USB Human Interface Device [Joystick]
> >>General Purpose USB Hub
> >>Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
> >>Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
> >>Logitech USB Camera (Web)
> >>USB Root Hub
> >>USB Root Hub
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Ron
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>

Edward,

I converted it to NTSF still only 32GB. So I have reformatted the drive
to 0's. I not sure but do I need to clear the MBR and if so how? I have
the MaxBast 3 software and I thought that I saw something about clearing
the MBR with one of the utilities.

Should I try once if necessary clear the MBR taking it an connecting it
off the motherboard and try to create the full 300GB and work from there?

Thanks,
Ron

Edward J. Neth wrote:
> You cannot create a partition over 32 GBytes as FAT32 with 2000 or XP - you
> would need to do that with the Maxtor partitioning utility (which probably
> won't work with the drive on a Promise controller), or with a 98 boot disc.
> Once the drive is partitioned and formatted, XP/2000 can work with a large
> FAT32 partition - but they cannot be used to create one.
>
>
>
> "RDBrimmer" <> wrote in message
> news:lZHGb.239926$...
>
>>Edward,
>>
>>No, I did not I have two 120GB drive partitioned into 57GB with Fat32 so
>>I thought I would be able to keep them as Fat32, as GW said if I went to
>> NTSF on my drive I would lose some of me files and would not be able
>>to revert them back if I was using older programs.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ron
>>
>>Edward J. Neth wrote:
>>
>>>Did you make sure to partition the drive with NTFS, and format
>
> accordingly?
>
>>>32 GBytes is as large a FAT32 partition as XP can create.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"RDBrimmer" <> wrote in message
>>>news:zyDGb.530520$...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Good Morning and Merry Christmas.
>>>>
>>>>About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make
>>>>sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your
>>>>system no problems.
>>>>
>>>>Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new
>>>>controller card which worried me as it was Promise and Gateway Country
>>>>could never get a Promise card to work. This one has had no problems.
>>>>
>>>>The hard drive is the problem it is only seeing 33.81 GB of the 300 GB.
>>>>I have ran every utility I know wrote 0's to it still only seeing 33.81.
>>>>
>>>>I was hoping to connect this to my motherboard and had all my partition
>>>>one data one data backup one Drive Image backup, and one test bed think
>>>>that I could have 4 at least 70 GB Drives.
>>>>
>>>>Working on scanning 1000's of photo to do slide shows with family and
>>>>other destinations.
>>>>
>>>>System Configurations.
>>>>
>>>>Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1
>>>>Gateway E-4600 4000762
>>>>Processor a Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
>>>>8 kilobyte primary memory cache
>>>>256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
>>>>Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
>>>>Serial Number: IMGB14421406
>>>>Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
>>>>BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001
>>>>Drives Memory Modules
>>>>201.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
>>>>121.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
>>>>HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-8000 [CD-ROM drive]
>>>>TDK CDRW5200B [CD-ROM drive]
>>>>3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
>>>>Maxtor 4A300J0 RAMB (33.81 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Data Storage Only
>>>> not sure of pin configuation
>>>>Maxtor 6Y080L0 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 OS & Programs only
>>>>WDC WD1200BB-50CAA1 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 Data & Drive
>>>>Image.
>>>>512 Megabytes Installed Memory 128 Megabyte Module Size - 4 Installed
>>>>Local Drive Volumes
>>>>c: (on drive 0) 81.95 GB 69.57 GB free
>>>>d: (on drive 1) 60.01 GB 45.98 GB free
>>>>h: (on drive 1) 59.98 GB 5.96 GB free
>>>>300GB Drive not seen here but is earlier not formated yet.
>>>>Network Drives
>>>>Controllers Printers
>>>>CMD PCI-0649 Ultra DMA IDE Controller Showing Old Controller Card for
>>>>some reason.
>>>>Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
>>>>Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>>>Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>>>Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>>>Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
>>>>WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller New controller card.
>>>>hp officejet k series on DOT4_001
>>>>hp officejet k series fax on DOT4_001
>>>>Net2Phone Fax Image Driver on PC2FaxPort
>>>>Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 (Gateway) [Display adapter]
>>>>Bus Adapters Multimedia
>>>>None detected
>>>>Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
>>>>Creative SBLive! Gameport
>>>>Communications Other Devices
>>>>GTW V.92 Voicemodem Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
>>>>Controller
>>>>HP OfficeJet K80 USB
>>>>Logitech QuickCam Web
>>>>American Power Conversion USB UPS [Joystick]
>>>>USB Human Interface Device [Joystick]
>>>>General Purpose USB Hub
>>>>Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
>>>>Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
>>>>Logitech USB Camera (Web)
>>>>USB Root Hub
>>>>USB Root Hub
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Ron
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:12:29 GMT, RDBrimmer <> wrote:

>I converted it to NTSF still only 32GB.


You can't "convert" it to NTFS. You have to delete all partitions on
drive (or write 0's) and then CREATE the partitions as NTFS.


Albert Alcoceba
<><

http://www.racysrailway.com/
Remove REMOVE

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:38:09 +1100, Albert Alcoceba
<> wrote:

You are mistaken, see here

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...convertfat.asp

Look and learn


Cheers


>On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:12:29 GMT, RDBrimmer <> wrote:
>
>>I converted it to NTSF still only 32GB.
>
>
>You can't "convert" it to NTFS. You have to delete all partitions on
>drive (or write 0's) and then CREATE the partitions as NTFS.
>
>
>Albert Alcoceba
> <><
>
>http://www.racysrailway.com/
>Remove REMOVE

The fairly lame message here from Micro$oft is that the days of FAT32 are
numbered.

Microsoft has been responsible for more quirks and oddities in their file
systems than can ever be imagined:

1. Windows 95 A cannot create or use anything except FAT16 partitions.
2. Windows 95B/98/ME cannot do anything with NTFS, and have their various
limitations on the size of FAT32 partitions.
3. Windows NT can create and access FAT16 partitions, and has a limitation of
4GB on the size of a bootable NTFS partition.
4. Windows 2000/XP cannot create FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB, but it CAN
read and write them.
5. And before all these, there were the various flavors of DOS, all of which had
their self-imposed limitations on FAT16 partitions.

I ****THINK**** I got all this right. If not, it is easy to understand why.
Sheesh! ... Ben Myers

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:32:17 GMT, "Edward J. Neth" <> wrote:

>You cannot create a partition over 32 GBytes as FAT32 with 2000 or XP - you
>would need to do that with the Maxtor partitioning utility (which probably
>won't work with the drive on a Promise controller), or with a 98 boot disc.
>Once the drive is partitioned and formatted, XP/2000 can work with a large
>FAT32 partition - but they cannot be used to create one.
>
>
>

Well just to let everyone know how replied that I finally got 286 out of
the 300GB. Don't ask me how because I could not tell you, things just
seem to fall into place. So now I have my 4 70GB+or- partitions. So we
will see how some of my older programs react to NTSF.

Thanks again,
Ron

RDBrimmer wrote:
> Good Morning and Merry Christmas.
>
> About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make
> sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your
> system no problems.
>
> Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new
> controller card which worried me as it was Promise and Gateway Country
> could never get a Promise card to work. This one has had no problems.
>
> The hard drive is the problem it is only seeing 33.81 GB of the 300 GB.
> I have ran every utility I know wrote 0's to it still only seeing 33.81.
>
> I was hoping to connect this to my motherboard and had all my partition
> one data one data backup one Drive Image backup, and one test bed think
> that I could have 4 at least 70 GB Drives.
>
> Working on scanning 1000's of photo to do slide shows with family and
> other destinations.
>
> System Configurations.
>
> Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1
> Gateway E-4600 4000762
> Processor a Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
> 8 kilobyte primary memory cache
> 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
> Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
> Serial Number: IMGB14421406
> Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
> BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001
> Drives Memory Modules
> 201.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
> 121.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
> HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-8000 [CD-ROM drive]
> TDK CDRW5200B [CD-ROM drive]
> 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
> Maxtor 4A300J0 RAMB (33.81 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Data Storage Only
> not sure of pin configuation
> Maxtor 6Y080L0 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 OS & Programs only
> WDC WD1200BB-50CAA1 (120.03 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 Data & Drive Image.
> 512 Megabytes Installed Memory 128 Megabyte Module Size - 4 Installed
> Local Drive Volumes
> c: (on drive 0) 81.95 GB 69.57 GB free
> d: (on drive 1) 60.01 GB 45.98 GB free
> h: (on drive 1) 59.98 GB 5.96 GB free
> 300GB Drive not seen here but is earlier not formated yet.
> Network Drives
> Controllers Printers
> CMD PCI-0649 Ultra DMA IDE Controller Showing Old Controller Card for
> some reason.
> Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
> Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
> Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
> Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
> Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
> WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller New controller card.
> hp officejet k series on DOT4_001
> hp officejet k series fax on DOT4_001
> Net2Phone Fax Image Driver on PC2FaxPort
> Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 (Gateway) [Display adapter]
> Bus Adapters Multimedia
> None detected
> Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
> Creative SBLive! Gameport
> Communications Other Devices
> GTW V.92 Voicemodem Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
> Controller
> HP OfficeJet K80 USB
> Logitech QuickCam Web
> American Power Conversion USB UPS [Joystick]
> USB Human Interface Device [Joystick]
> General Purpose USB Hub
> Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
> Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
> Logitech USB Camera (Web)
> USB Root Hub
> USB Root Hub
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>

Let me rephrase that - if you want to have more than 32GB then you
can't convert the 32GB FAT and expect to get all the space available
in NTFS. You will end up with a 32GB NTFS partition. In order to have
large NTFS partitions (over 32GB) you will need to create the
partitions from scratch.

Albert



On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:48:19 +0000, Justin Thompson
<> wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:38:09 +1100, Albert Alcoceba
><> wrote:
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>You are mistaken, see here
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>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...convertfat.asp
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>Look and learn
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>
>Cheers
>
>
>>On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:12:29 GMT, RDBrimmer <> wrote:
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>>>I converted it to NTSF still only 32GB.
>>
>>
>>You can't "convert" it to NTFS. You have to delete all partitions on
>>drive (or write 0's) and then CREATE the partitions as NTFS.


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