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Large Hard Drive? Needs SP1 or greater...
| Message Board > General Chitchat > Large Hard Drive? Needs SP1 or greater... |
| _Griphin_ User Info... | As I recently found out with my 320 gig Segate hard drive, it requires an OS with SP1 or greater (Service Pack part of the OS, NOT seperate from the OS). I had to return the drive cause I screwed up, hopefully they'll get it working again. Sigh, I need sleep. :( - Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:44am Edited: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:44am | ||
| Mean Mike User Info... | you may have been able to update your bios or use a hard drive overlay program to kick it into gear. Not sure why you cant get the service packs just download SP2 from microsoft and be done with it. - Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:57am | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | That's what I thought (I'm running the SP4 service pack with the present Windows 2000 configuration) but apparently you need to install an OS that already has the Service Pack on the CD (my store bought verison of XP is SP2 compatible, but I don't run XP). I found a Windows 2000 ISO w/SP4 so this should fix my problems. I don't have to update my Bios nor use a drive overlay. And yes, it seems silly I can't download or use the SP4 executable, but I can see why this is a problem since my Windows 2000 copy came out when large drives weren't on the market. The people at DTI assumed I had a working OS, they didn't tell me about why the older OS's aren't compatible (and I assumed it would work (honestly I didn't know), but now I think about it I must of been smoking good crack thinking it would work, I should of looked at the Seagate website before I installed the new drive IMO). - Wed, 3 Jan 2007 4:06pm Edited: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 4:15pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | I don't believe the explanation given to you. Was it a SATA drive? (Little tiny connectors rather than the normal large 40/80 pin ribbon chummie) If so, then that makes way more sense. Even if your motherboard support SATA physically, the OS does not necessarily. I still don't believe the bullshit about not being able to patch up to a level to support it. Usually (As Mean Mike pointed to), its the BIOS that freaks out. Even then it will work, but it will be stuck at whatever the maximum is (like 137GB recently, or 30GB in the old days, or 32MB in the REAL old days) More incompatibilities comes from new interfaces (like PATA vs SATA, SCSI, USB, FIREIRE) than the actual drive issues. You should have received a disk with your computer when it was new with special SATA drivers on it, if indeed that was your issue. Your motherboard manufacturer website prolly has downloadable. If you don't want the hassle, stick with PATA (or ATA/133) Drives. - Wed, 3 Jan 2007 7:36pm Edited: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 7:39pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | I actually originally ordered a 320 gig SATA drive (my Asus P4P800 motherboard suppports SATA1, not SATA2) but realized I ordered the wrong drive, so I re-ordered a IDE drive. Ya figure that I really didn't know what I was getting from that, right? But still, I can understand how the OS won't support a large drive. According to Seagate: Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 operating systems, or higher, are required to support ATA disc drives larger than 137GB. The registry setting EnableBigLBA needs to be set after the proper level service pack is installed. Wish I had known this before I recieved the 320 gig Seagate drive. - Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:18pm Edited: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:19pm | ||
| Mean Mike User Info... | you could always do the logical thing, since your obviously not a network specialist, and upgrade to XP.. why casual users still bother with 2K is beyond me. Sure I could see it during the pre SP1 days of XP, but now why deal with the hassles of lack of drivers etc. - Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:39am Edited: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:39am | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | According to Segate: Seagate hard drives do not require any special drivers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The generic hard drive driver should support your hard drive. We recommend using the latest Windows Service Pack (SP) updates as these often refresh the Windows drivers. In some cases, Service Pack updates are required to support large capacity drives. For example, starting with Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000 SP3, support for ATA interface hard drives greater than 137 GB in size was added. (I thought it was Windows 2000 SP1 and Windows XP SP2.) For Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/en-us For Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us - Thu, 4 Jan 2007 1:43pm Edited: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 1:47pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Sigh... what's up with Technology these days?!? {rest of Rant deleted.} - Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:03pm Edited: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 9:38am | ||
| Mean Mike User Info... | man, just upgrade to XP and be done with it, it has to happen someday. - Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:36am | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | You don't know the half of it. What youre experiencing is a non-issue compared to a gazillion other technology related bullshit going in cyberspace - Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:25pm | ||
| Johnny Grass User Info... | The drive doesn't require additional drivers, but the SATA controller does. You need a floppy with the drivers on it and need to press F6 to install the drivers before windoze will recognize your drive. - Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:28pm Edited: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:28pm | ||
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