WD not detected?

[Rob423]

Ok, hooked up my brand new WD 200GB 8mb cache drive on Primary IDE as Slave... bios see's it, but when i go to Explore my computer, there is no drive there... ? what the hell??

RIG
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Boilermaker]

what operating system are you running? when i added a second hard drive to my win2000 sp4 box, i had to run drive manager and write a signature or something like that to the drive before the os would even acknowledge its presence. then i could partition, format, etc.

if you have access to a copy, you could always try using partition magic.

 

[Rob423]

yeah my bad i just got all crazy and stuff..... i got partition magic........ im really getting more annoyed now because i bought a god damn 200GB HD and it says only 127GB!!!!!!

RIG
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Boilermaker]

i think i've posted the same thing in this forum three times, probably about the only thing i've posted lately here....you may need to enable the 48bit LBA in the operating system for it to recognize more than 137gb:

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098" target="_new">fix for win2000</A>

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013" target="_new">fix for win xp</A>

hope that does the trick.

 

[Rob423]

OMG THANK YOU!!

RIG
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Rob423]

Im sorry for this question but, do i deff need SP1? to see my 200GB HD... i installed it and my computer is a piece of [-peep-] now, mad long boot ups, mad long to shut down... it's acting very funny the minute i installed it.... i just wanna see my 200GB hd, what is my easiest choice... thank you


RIG
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Boilermaker]

you could try uninstalling the service pack and doing this (from the article i referenced above):

For the original release of Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional, 48-bit LBA could be enabled for testing purposes by setting a registry value, named EnableBigLba, to 1 in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters\

Warning Data corruption can occur you use this registry value to enable 48-bit LBA support in the original release of Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional, or if previous versions of Windows that do not support 48-bit LBA out of the box (for example, Windows 2000 or earlier) are installed on a disk partition that was previously created by a 48-bit aware operating system such as Windows XP SP1 that is larger or spans the current addressable limit of 137 GB.

they even say no guaruntees....but from what i hear about sp1, it might we worth a try. personally i think xp is a peice of garbage, had it on my computer for about 3 days before i went back to win2000pro.