Hard drive >137gb support in 200T?

[mrkazoo]

Hard drive >137gb support in 200T?

[mrkazoo]

Hi,

I'm new here. Been lurking for a few months. I just received my new 200T with goodies (see my sig).

BUT, I'm having major trouble.... I have a WD 250gb hard drive that I am using to install WinXP. In the setup of XP, I partitioned the drive for 8gb for XP's system and the rest is in varying chunks of 10gb to 100gb.

To make a long story short, after setup finishes from the CD, XP does not boot. I get nothing after "Updating ESCD, etc." I also tried installing Biostar's 'entertainment" CD and that doesn't work either.

So, then I hook up the drive to the ATA PCI card that was included with the hard drive and try installing XP again and Biostar's thing again. Neither works, but this time, on bootup, windows gives an error: "Windows could not blablabla hardware issue blablabla."

Anyhow, I'm not sure what the problem is, whether the drive died on me (although I used it before) or the BIOS doesn't support it. In the Bios, it would correctly recognize that it is a 250gb hard drive.

Btw, I'm installing XP SP1a so the 137gb barrier should not be an issue even though I don't have a partition >100gb.

Any suggestions?

[mrkazoo]

No one has a hard drive >120gb in a 200T?

[dennya]

I have a 160GB drive in a 200N, but that's probably not related given the difference in hardware.

Can you try the 250GB drive in another PC? Given the problems when you hooked it to the controller card, sounds like it might be a bad drive.

[mrkazoo]

UPDATE: My problem was resolved by a setting in the Bios. I set it so the drive transfer was under "LBA" and not Auto. That did the trick and windows XP SP1 behaved after I installed a patch to update the Atapi.sys file and some INI file.