I just bought a WD 160gig HD, XP detects the drive as 149GB as i expected. Now when i try and format the disk it stops at 86%. Now 86% of 149GB is 128GB, which i know when i tried a disk this big on an old bios revision that 127GB was the largest size that was detected. Anyone have this problem before? Specs ------ WinXp SP1 KT7A-Raid 9N bios 2.32 HPT Bios IDE0: 40Gig IBM, 30Gig Seagate IDE1: DVD, CDR IDE2: 120Gig Maxtor IDE3: 160Gig Western Digital
em, strange i just tried the 160 gig on IDE1, and it seems to have formatted fine, so is this a problem with windows or the HPT drivers/bios.
Dave, You didn't say, but I assume your BIOS recognizes the drive correctly? If so, you need to enable 48 bit addressing in Windows XP for it to see the whole drive. Here are the instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013 John
Never heard of a 9N bios. There's A9 for the v1.x-1.2 series and 9R for the v1.3. I have a 1.0 board and I updated to A9 with the highpoint 2.34 bios, formatted my 160 fine. Might want to look into that, and use the latest highpoint drivers along with it (that's what I did, works fine) -GV