Re: "Cap. Limit" Jumper Question

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:40:00 -0500, George <> wrote:

>Belatedly, I thank you for the help with the Rosewill 208 controller.
>(Sorry I can't reply in the original thread. I lost it!)
>Just today, I needed to use the Rosewill 208 with my MVP3C2, and it
>worked fine right away.
>Now, I can boot from devices bigger than 30GB! (I am now booting from
>a WD 80GB drive.)
>I would caution others that it took a long time for the "Found New
>Hardware" wizard to appear. Apparently, WinXp had to do a lot of work
>before that could appear.
>Now, I have another question. I have an 80GB Maxtor drive with some
>data on it. Apparently, that drive was formatted with the "Cap Limit"
>jumper in place. I removed that jumper.
>The WinXp "Disk Manager" now lists the drive as "Drive 1" and "76.33
>GB FAT32 Healthy", but it also lists it as "DRV_1(C" with a capacity
>of 31.48 GB. Is there any way for me to use that as an 80GB drive
>without having to reformat it and/or without losing the data that's on
>it?

In the rectangle to the right of the Disk 1 Basic 76.33 Online box,
does Disk Management say that there's unallocated disk space?
If there's unallocated space, a third party partitioning program can
extend the existing partition to the end of the disk.

DRV_1(C is the partition on the disk. What does Disk Management say
is the status of this partition? Which volume is Healthy (System)?

>
>To reply directly to me, replace all 'z' with 'a' in email address.

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:25:07 -0500, George <> wrote:

>DRV_1(C Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy 31.48 GB 31.05 GB 98% No 0%

According to the above, only 2% of the disk partition has data on it.
If there should be more data on the partition, I would replace the cap
limit jumper, back up the data, delete the partition, remove the cap
jumper, and repartition.

>
>
>Disk 1 Basic 76.33 GB Online DRV_1(C 76.33GB FAT32 Healthy
>no mention fo "unallocated disk space"

Looks like you're going to have to delete the partition on the disk,
and then repartition and format.

>
>"Healthy" System is DRV3_VOl1 (I
>
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>On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:33:59 -0800, andy <> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:40:00 -0500, George <> wrote:
>>
>>>Belatedly, I thank you for the help with the Rosewill 208 controller.
>>>(Sorry I can't reply in the original thread. I lost it!)
>>>Just today, I needed to use the Rosewill 208 with my MVP3C2, and it
>>>worked fine right away.
>>>Now, I can boot from devices bigger than 30GB! (I am now booting from
>>>a WD 80GB drive.)
>>>I would caution others that it took a long time for the "Found New
>>>Hardware" wizard to appear. Apparently, WinXp had to do a lot of work
>>>before that could appear.
>>>Now, I have another question. I have an 80GB Maxtor drive with some
>>>data on it. Apparently, that drive was formatted with the "Cap Limit"
>>>jumper in place. I removed that jumper.
>>>The WinXp "Disk Manager" now lists the drive as "Drive 1" and "76.33
>>>GB FAT32 Healthy", but it also lists it as "DRV_1(C" with a capacity
>>>of 31.48 GB. Is there any way for me to use that as an 80GB drive
>>>without having to reformat it and/or without losing the data that's on
>>>it?
>>
>>In the rectangle to the right of the Disk 1 Basic 76.33 Online box,
>>does Disk Management say that there's unallocated disk space?
>>If there's unallocated space, a third party partitioning program can
>>extend the existing partition to the end of the disk.
>>
>>DRV_1(C is the partition on the disk. What does Disk Management say
>>is the status of this partition? Which volume is Healthy (System)?
>>
>>>
>>>To reply directly to me, replace all 'z' with 'a' in email address.