Simviation Forum - About the 137 gig limit???

May 14^th, 2005 at 5:23pm

Gary R. Offline
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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.

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Reply #1 - May 14^th, 2005 at 5:48pm

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

both are 200

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Reply #2 - May 14^th, 2005 at 6:05pm

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

Perhaps there is a bios update that will fix this?

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Reply #3 - May 14^th, 2005 at 6:39pm

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

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Reply #4 - May 14^th, 2005 at 8:07pm

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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/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b0913460...

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Reply #5 - May 15^th, 2005 at 5:16am

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Thx Hype

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Reply #6 - May 15^th, 2005 at 2:21pm

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

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They both will work perfectly, until you open windows.

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Reply #7 - May 15^th, 2005 at 3:50pm

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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 8)

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Reply #8 - May 16^th, 2005 at 4:41pm

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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.

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Reply #9 - May 24^th, 2005 at 10:37pm

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