Windows XP compatibility with WD 200gig hard drive
Hello all.
I have 2 hard drives as you can see in my specs, the 200gig is new. When I got it I formatted both drives to NTFS, and installed windows on the new drive. The max that windows is allowing me to partition the hard drive to is 127gigs which seems weird to me because from what I have seen other people say, usually you dont have problems until you go over 137gigs. Anyway, I installed on the 127gig partition, and man the problems havent stopped since. I had to go to the windows recovery menu several times due to errors such as "System files corrupted, restart your computer using the original Windows XP disc and at the first option screen press "r."
I did this, and recovered the system files. Even with nothing but a fresh install of windows on either hard drive, something is using 100% of the cpu cycles. I believe its because of the new hard drive. My motherboard BIOS are up to date, I don't know what else I can do.
I have 2 hard drives as you can see in my specs, the 200gig is new. When I got it I formatted both drives to NTFS, and installed windows on the new drive. The max that windows is allowing me to partition the hard drive to is 127gigs which seems weird to me because from what I have seen other people say, usually you dont have problems until you go over 137gigs. Anyway, I installed on the 127gig partition, and man the problems havent stopped since. I had to go to the windows recovery menu several times due to errors such as "System files corrupted, restart your computer using the original Windows XP disc and at the first option screen press "r."
I did this, and recovered the system files. Even with nothing but a fresh install of windows on either hard drive, something is using 100% of the cpu cycles. I believe its because of the new hard drive. My motherboard BIOS are up to date, I don't know what else I can do.
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Int 13h Devices: 1
ATA Devices: 0
ATAPI Devices: 0
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Standard Legacy Controller - 1st IDE Port - Master Device = None Detected
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Standard Legacy Controller - 1st IDE Port - Slave Device = None Detected
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Standard Legacy Controller - 2nd IDE Port - Master Device = None Detected
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Standard Legacy Controller - 2nd IDE Port - Slave Device = None Detected
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This is what one of the 3 things on WD's website had to offer, the other 2 require DOS and I cant seem to run them.
What is happening if you have just the 200gig'er in as primary master and set your bios to auto? Is it not detecting it at boot time now? I don't think you'll be able to manual put in the drive size into your bios as that's a pretty big stunt to pull off. Try switching around the jumpers on the drive also some drives work better in some systems as cable select other work better when specified Master/Slave.
Answer: In order to access drives larger than 137GB, the operating system must support 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA). Service Pack 1 for Windows XP (and Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000) add this support. So you need to install the service pack if you haven't already. Note that your computer's BIOS also must be able to support 48 bit LBA. If it doesn't, you'll only be able to use the first 137GB of the disk.
It is also possible to enable 48 bit LBA in the original release of XP Home or Pro by creating a Registry value named EnableBigLba in the following registry key: HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters. The data value for the new entry should be set to 1 to enable 48 bit LBA.
Hope this helps!
http://www.48bitlba.com/reference.htm