About the 137 gig limit???

[Gary R.]

I just bought and installed a new hardrive, a WD 160 gig, 7200 rpm, 8 meg buffer.  Problem is windows only registers 137 gig of the 160 gig.  What can I download or install to correct this???  I doubt I'll ever need all that as I still have my original 60 gig maxtor in place but it is nice to get all you pay for.

[|| Andy ||]

I have the same problem, but one registers 168 (D:\)and one 137 (C:\)

both are 200

[Jared]

I'm not sure, but what kind of motherboards are you guys using?

Perhaps there is a bios update that will fix this?

[asda_price]

I think it may only be counting the free space left on that partition? Just a thought, though.

Cheers.  :)

Rob.  :)

[Hyperion2]

The problem is the result of a technology improvement.  To make it confusing, the problem specifically arose when the industry switched from 32-bit to 48-bit.

There IS a 137GB limit to the new 48-bit addressing, but it's not all lost.

Maxtor has made an application called "Big Drive Enabler" which lets you bump through the "wall".


http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxto ... nloadID=11

[|| Andy ||]

Thx Hype

[Skittles]

My problem was only getting 127GB out of a 250GB. So I made two, 125GB partitions.

[GA_Pilot]

My problem was only getting 127GB out of a 250GB. So I made two, 125GB partitions.

I had to do that also with my 250 gig HD

[Gary R.]

Well, then I guess I will have to do the math and partition both of mine appropriatly.  I have two now, the crappy 60 gig, 5200 rpm maxtor that my PC was built with and a brand new Western Dig 160 meg, 8 meg buffer, 7200 rpm drive.  Perhaps if I just partition my new drive in half.  Two 80 gig partitions??  Of course, I will also update the Mobo bios as well.

[the_autopilot]

RAID array's also will fix your woes.