![]() ![]() I know electronics and I had a couple of project involving serial communications but I am not an expert. I feel I can perform the second task but the explanations I have found were a bit scarce and missing some schematics. Would it work? What special step? Or connect through serial port and attempt to reset the drive controler? It seems to be a known problem, as there are some explanation on. ![]() Get an electronic board from a identical drive or directly alone. Through seatools the drive is showing 0 byte like in a dos boot and has a SN different from the one written onthe disk. Looking around I would say that the controler card went nuts and that the hard drive is fine. No bad treatment, was inside a tower and stopped working. If the other suggestions don't work, the tools listed above (go to the drive makers web site for drives I did not include) do the job quite well and will work with stubborn BIOS/HD combinations.Hi there, I have a 2tb Barracuda LP ST3200542AS lying around showing 0 capacity. Note, however, that most of these overlay programs must be installed before paritioning and formating (or re-formating) a drive and will, generally, wipe all old data. These tools can also format and partition FAT32 and NTFS drives. The overlay fools the BIOS into thinking the drive is 32GB so the bootloader can run, then reports the correct size to the OS you wish to use. Most offer these tools in either an ISO file for a floppy, a CD or as an executable that creates the floppy (or, floppies) needed.Īll of these offers a boot loader that overcomes the size limits the BIOS that *any* PC might have, including Dell PCs. Most manufacturers provide tools to format, partition and add drive overlay code to their drives. This is also purely a software problem (an incompatibility in how the drive reports its capacity and how the BIOS reads this info).Ī more flexible and reliable solution is to use the CD that comes with a new drive, or to go to the drive makers web site and download the tools from there. Second, In some systems, the drive will be detected as anything from 6G to 32G for drives larger than 32G, regardless of the BIOS. I have also seen this behaviour on other systems.įirst, all hardware since 1997 or so (when Ultra DMA was introduced) can handle LBA48 (48 Bit Addressing). I have an Optiplex x260 with BIOS revision A09 and another with A07. I have seen this several times and too many of the suggestions apply to narrow conditions and/or work somewhat happhazardly. You can split drives into 80 gig chunks like a 160 into 2 partitions and scandisk for dos can still handle the drive.Īll of this has Nothing to do with the GX110 and everything to do with Microsoft.Īlso drives larger than 127 gigs need 48 bit LBA and patches. In reality this number is near 80 Gigs for scandisk. Including the FATs themselves, this works out, at the maximum of 32 KB per cluster, to a volume size of 127.53 gigabytes (GB). A FAT entry on a volume using the FAT32 file system uses 4 bytes, so ScanDisk cannot process the FAT on a volume using the FAT32 file system that defines more than 4,177,920 clusters (including the two reserved clusters). Therefore, The Windows 95 or Windows 98 ScanDisk tool cannot process volumes using the FAT32 file system that have a FAT larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size. Such programs have a single memory block maximum allocation size of 16 MB less 64 KB. The ScanDisk tool included with Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98 is a 16-bit program. When attempting to format a FAT32 partition using WIN95/2000/XP larger than 32 GB, the format fails near the end of the process with the following error: Logical Disk Manager: Volume size too big. Microsoft's Artificial Limits on Fat32 from 2000/XP ![]() ![]() Windows NT 4.0 Supports Maximum of 7.8-GB System Partition Windows NT 4.0 Cannot Access Windows 2000 FAT32 Partition You must use a WIN98 or WIN98SE startup Disk to make WIN2000/XP fat32 boot partitions. Thanksįdisk fixed in WIN98 to handle drives larger than 64 gigs. All I want to know is is there a quick fix that doesn't involve buying anything or opening the computer. The OS installed without any problems (Window XP Home). I looked throught other posts about the hard drive barrier. ![]()
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