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September 18th 06, 03:12 PM
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External USB HD Kit shows wrong disk size.
I just purchase an External USB hard drive enclosure and two 250GB drives.
I tried both drives in the enclosure (one at a time obviously) but both show the size as 2048GB under diskmanagement. When I format it says the task did not complete successfully. Either quick or long format. 
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September 18th 06, 03:54 PM
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External USB HD Kit shows wrong disk size.
"!TG" wrote:
I just purchase an External USB hard drive enclosure and two 250GB drives. I tried both drives in the enclosure (one at a time obviously) but both show the size as 2048GB under diskmanagement. When I format it says the task did not complete successfully. Either quick or long format. Are you trying to format these drives while in Windows? Hard drives in USB enclosures can be tricky to format in Windows XP. I had to use a bootable rescue CD and was able to format a drive that way. Another possibility is to install a new a hard drive in your PC as a second drive, and format it from there.
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September 18th 06, 03:59 PM
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External USB HD Kit shows wrong disk size.
I was trying from Windows. I will try your other suggested methods and
report back. "Factor 13" wrote in message ... "!TG" wrote: I just purchase an External USB hard drive enclosure and two 250GB drives. I tried both drives in the enclosure (one at a time obviously) but both show the size as 2048GB under diskmanagement. When I format it says the task did not complete successfully. Either quick or long format. Are you trying to format these drives while in Windows? Hard drives in USB enclosures can be tricky to format in Windows XP. I had to use a bootable rescue CD and was able to format a drive that way. Another possibility is to install a new a hard drive in your PC as a second drive, and format it from there.
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September 18th 06, 04:05 PM
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External USB HD Kit shows wrong disk size.
!TG wrote:
I just purchase an External USB hard drive enclosure and two 250GB drives. I tried both drives in the enclosure (one at a time obviously) but both show the size as 2048GB under diskmanagement. When I format it says the task did not complete successfully. Either quick or long format. You need two things to support a drive over 137GB: 1. A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that supports 48-bit LBA (or alternatively, an add-in controller card that does). 2. At least SP1 of Windows XP. Do you have both of these? -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
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September 18th 06, 04:24 PM
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External USB HD Kit shows wrong disk size.
Ken, it's USB, the motherboard controller is irrelevant.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... You need two things to support a drive over 137GB: 1. A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that supports 48-bit LBA (or alternatively, an add-in controller card that does). 2. At least SP1 of Windows XP. Do you have both of these? -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
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