Hard Drive recognised by BIOS but not XP!!!

[Dave]

Hi,
XP has a drive size limitation of about 140Gb. Could it
be thatt your drive is larger than than? In such case
updated drivers should be installed on XP, or a hardware
controller should be provided with the drive.

XP should still see it but reports the size wrong, untill
you update the IDE drivers.

Also some HD brand are not compatible as Master/Slave of
each other. Especially under XP. I actually think this is
the issue you are having. I had that before.... not mutch
you can do about it. Maybe rearrange the drives
disposition on the different controller channels, swap
them arround to find a working combination.

Good luck.


>-----Original Message-----
>Hello People
>Can anyone please help me as I have fitted some extra
hard drives and cannot
>get XP to recognise one of them. I have tried various
configurations of
>having this drive as a master and a slave but with no
joy. It is recognised
>in another PC running Windows 2000/98 but not XP. The
drive is good and
>TweakUI is not set to not show this particular drive
letter. Have tried it
>in Win2000 system and it is shown in my computer. If I
start the XP PC from
>a Partition Magic boot disk the drive is shown as drive
5. When XP starts it
>is device 3 for info. Help!! Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>.
>

[PompeyRodney]

Cheers Dave that sounds like the most likely explanation to me mate. I have
two removable hard drive caddies each containing two drives. The suspect
drive is an IBM and is in the caddie with another IBM drive (much newer
though). I will change them around but the trouble is I have three IBM
drives so it will be difficult to get around any incompatibility. The total
of my drives is only 131 gigs so I should be ok!!
"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> XP has a drive size limitation of about 140Gb. Could it
> be thatt your drive is larger than than? In such case
> updated drivers should be installed on XP, or a hardware
> controller should be provided with the drive.
>
> XP should still see it but reports the size wrong, untill
> you update the IDE drivers.
>
> Also some HD brand are not compatible as Master/Slave of
> each other. Especially under XP. I actually think this is
> the issue you are having. I had that before.... not mutch
> you can do about it. Maybe rearrange the drives
> disposition on the different controller channels, swap
> them arround to find a working combination.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello People
> >Can anyone please help me as I have fitted some extra
> hard drives and cannot
> >get XP to recognise one of them. I have tried various
> configurations of
> >having this drive as a master and a slave but with no
> joy. It is recognised
> >in another PC running Windows 2000/98 but not XP. The
> drive is good and
> >TweakUI is not set to not show this particular drive
> letter. Have tried it
> >in Win2000 system and it is shown in my computer. If I
> start the XP PC from
> >a Partition Magic boot disk the drive is shown as drive
> 5. When XP starts it
> >is device 3 for info. Help!! Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >