WinXP and 160 gig Western Digital

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
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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