Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.storage
Titolo: Lost Capacity in New 185GB Harddisk under WinXP - why?

Hi all,
I have just cloned my old hard disk to a new IBM deskstar 185.2GB
(manufacturer figure) HD using ghost. I did not format the disk out of the
box, and just ran ghost which worked perfectly. Trouble is, in XP the disk
is reported as 137 billion bytes => real capacity of 127GB (of which 10GB
has come from the old disk leaving 117 GB). I seem to have lost 58GB
somehwere?
Can anyone give a hint why and where? Also what to do to restore lost GB?
The new disk appears to be NTFS and working fine.
Many many thanks
Alex

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That's the 137GB problem (or the 128GB problem). Read all about it here ->
http://www.dansdata.com/hpt37x.htm
 (scroll down to the heading "The Rocket
133S").
In short you need a newer IDE controller - one that boasts "Big Drive"
technology, which signifies the drive supports 48-bit LBA (as opposed to the
old 28-bit).
Gareth

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There is a 137 gig storage limit on older (28 bit?) IDE controllers, which I
assume you are using. This page
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W3E823963
gives some solutions. I know it's a Maxtor page, but the solutions should
work for any large drive.
Mark

Hi all,
I have just cloned my old hard disk to a new IBM deskstar 185.2GB
(manufacturer figure) HD using ghost. I did not format the disk out of the
box, and just ran ghost which worked perfectly. Trouble is, in XP the disk
is reported as 137 billion bytes => real capacity of 127GB (of which 10GB
has come from the old disk leaving 117 GB). I seem to have lost 58GB
somehwere?
Can anyone give a hint why and where? Also what to do to restore lost GB?
The new disk appears to be NTFS and working fine.
Many many thanks
Alex

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| >
| > I have just cloned my old hard disk to a new IBM deskstar 185.2GB
| > (manufacturer figure) HD using ghost. I did not format the disk out of the
| > box, and just ran ghost which worked perfectly. Trouble is, in XP the disk
| > is reported as 137 billion bytes => real capacity of 127GB (of which 10GB
| > has come from the old disk leaving 117 GB). I seem to have lost 58GB
| > somehwere?
| >
| That's the 137GB problem (or the 128GB problem). Read all about it here ->
| 
http://www.dansdata.com/hpt37x.htm
 (scroll down to the heading "The Rocket
| 133S").
|
| In short you need a newer IDE controller - one that boasts "Big Drive"
| technology, which signifies the drive supports 48-bit LBA (as opposed to the
| old 28-bit).
|
No you don't. Many recent mainboards have BIOS updates to support lba-48. You
can extend the partition as long as your 32-bit drivers also have lba-48.
Even if you don't have BIOS support, you can enable the lba-48 support in Win
2K-SP3 and XP-SP1 and create another partition. Do not try to extend the
partition in this case.

 can extend the partition as long as your 32-bit drivers also have lba-48.
You're right. Very poor wording on my behalf. You need an IDE controller
that supports 48-bit LBA commands. But that doesn't mean you have to buy a
new one, as my post seems to imply. You can often get that support by
upgrading the BIOS, which should be the first step to try.
Thanks for pulling me up on this. What I mean to say and what I actually say
aren't always the same thing.
Gareth