160 GB Maxtor HD Recognition Problem

[Randy]

I bought the subject line hard drive. My XP Pro will not
allow the Maxtor MaxBlast 3 program to run in order to
partition, format and configure the drive in my system.
In BIOS, when the new drive is attached, it does see it
though. I just can't get the MaxBlast 3 to run. I have
a P4 2.4 GB CPU, Dragon Lite MB, 512 MB ram and so on.
It is a new system that works well within my XP Pro O/S.
But for some reason, the Maxtor set up program will not
run. I was going to try to partition/format it by just
hooking it up as the C drive and using the XP O/S to do
it but it only sees 130 GB of the disk which is mentioned
in the Maxtor instruction guide. I used my daughter's
computer with an Athlon 1.5 GB CPU and MSI MB. She also
has XP Pro O/S. It worked just fine and I did partition
the drive and format it. However, the MaxBlast 3 program
also makes a change in the XP O/S to get it to see hard
drives larger than 130 GB. This is my problem. My
system needs that change to be made too. How do I do it
without being able to get the MaxBlast 3 program to
work? I also downloaded the MaxBlast 3 newest version
offf the net and that would not work either. Please help
me. Thanks.

[Pete Baker]

Randy

You should find the information and steps needed to let XP see the full
drive here

How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Then just use XP drive management to partition and format.

Hope that helps
Pete
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"Randy" wrote
> I bought the subject line hard drive. My XP Pro will not
> allow the Maxtor MaxBlast 3 program to run in order to
> partition, format and configure the drive in my system.
> In BIOS, when the new drive is attached, it does see it
> though. I just can't get the MaxBlast 3 to run. I have
> a P4 2.4 GB CPU, Dragon Lite MB, 512 MB ram and so on.
> It is a new system that works well within my XP Pro O/S.
> But for some reason, the Maxtor set up program will not
> run. I was going to try to partition/format it by just
> hooking it up as the C drive and using the XP O/S to do
> it but it only sees 130 GB of the disk which is mentioned
> in the Maxtor instruction guide. I used my daughter's
> computer with an Athlon 1.5 GB CPU and MSI MB. She also
> has XP Pro O/S. It worked just fine and I did partition
> the drive and format it. However, the MaxBlast 3 program
> also makes a change in the XP O/S to get it to see hard
> drives larger than 130 GB. This is my problem. My
> system needs that change to be made too. How do I do it
> without being able to get the MaxBlast 3 program to
> work? I also downloaded the MaxBlast 3 newest version
> offf the net and that would not work either. Please help
> me. Thanks.