Maxtor 300GB hard disk not fully recognised on win XP

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Glen Charles - 20 Mar 2004 00:06 GMT

Hi i just bought the Maxtor 300GB hard disk and put it inside my compaq Evo 510 desktop. When i inserted my windows xp setup cd it only seems to recognise 120GB does anyone know why? Am i doing something wrong?

I'd appreciate any advice on this matter.

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Jason Tsang - 20 Mar 2004 00:17 GMT

Does your version of Windows XP have SP1 integrated or slipstreamed into it?

It *sounds* like it doesn't.

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> Hi i just bought the Maxtor 300GB hard disk and put it inside my compaq Evo 510 desktop. When i inserted my windows xp setup cd it only seems to

recognise 120GB does anyone know why? Am i doing something wrong?

> I'd appreciate any advice on this matter.

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Bob Harris - 20 Mar 2004 05:21 GMT

To correctly use disk large than about 127 Gig, you need several things to
be true. First, you need a motherboard BIOS that can handle that size of
disk. Check with your PC maker for the capability of their BIOS. Reading
the motherboard/PC manual might help, but it has to be a detailed manual,
not a "quick-start" manual. If yours does not, and if no update is
available, look into a PCI adapter card with its own IDE controllers.
Maxtor makes one, but there are plenty of others.

Second you need XP SP-1 installed.

Third, you need to manually activae 48-bit LBA in XP. See the following MS
article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

> Hi i just bought the Maxtor 300GB hard disk and put it inside my compaq Evo 510 desktop. When i inserted my windows xp setup cd it only seems to

recognise 120GB does anyone know why? Am i doing something wrong?

> I'd appreciate any advice on this matter.

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