BIOS Limitation for large hard drives > 137 gig.

Does this limit exist in XP?
I have a KT7 Raid.
How do I check if the KT7 will allow larger drives?

I have looked through the manual, but I didn't see it.

"Terry" <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Does this limit exist in XP?
> I have a KT7 Raid.
> How do I check if the KT7 will allow larger drives?
>
> I have looked through the manual, but I didn't see it.
>
Its been a long day so..... the story goes XP w/SP2 no problems with drives 137 gigs blah
blah.
Dells with GENERIC bios (which I discovered today)or early/poorly written BIOS (not XP
per say) have limits also
Check with the 'brand' of computer or Mainboard manufacturer for a bios revision. You will
also find an explanation of what the bios revision fixed.

Terry <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote in
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> Does this limit exist in XP?

<snip>

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013

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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:55:04 -0500, Frank McCoy wrote:

> Finally, if you reformat it in NTFS mode (the standard for large drives)
> you won't then be able to clone the drive like you can a FAT-32 drive;
> because Win-XP will make several partitions appear to be one ... to
> itself anyway ... and the cloning program won't know what to do with
> that.

Are you speaking only of drives that have the overlay in use? I had a
dying 160GB hard drive that was formatted in NTFS (not using an overlay)
with three partitions and Acronis had no problem cloning the drive to the
new hard drive.

Patty

"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
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> In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Patty <patty@iainttellin.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:55:04 -0500, Frank McCoy wrote:
>>
>>> Finally, if you reformat it in NTFS mode (the standard for large drives)
>>> you won't then be able to clone the drive like you can a FAT-32 drive;
>>> because Win-XP will make several partitions appear to be one ... to
>>> itself anyway ... and the cloning program won't know what to do with
>>> that.
>>
>>Are you speaking only of drives that have the overlay in use? I had a
>>dying 160GB hard drive that was formatted in NTFS (not using an overlay)
>>with three partitions and Acronis had no problem cloning the drive to the
>>new hard drive.
>>
> Don't know about Acronis; but ever since I went to NTFS, Western
> Digital's "Data Lifeguard" suite says it can't clone my 250 gig drives.
>
> It says something like:
> "Warning: your current boot drive is a dynamic disk. Therefore Data
> Lifeguard Tools cannot set up the selected drive as a new boot drive.
> However, it can be set up as additional storage."

Why would your disks be dynamic? they should be 'basic' for most instances. This is what
disk management says also?

>
> Other tools I've tried have similar problems.
>
> Funny that: You'd *expect* that you could just do a disk-image copy,
> sector-for-sector, just like the old DISKCOPY program used-to-do.
>
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"Pecos" <anortRemOveThIs&2on2@phreego.net> wrote in message
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> Terry <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote in
> news:9re1e39r4i9i7mhocc0irgpll9g3ep58cb@4ax.com:
>
>> Does this limit exist in XP?
>
> <snip>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013
>
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> Review of Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H, ECS P965T-A and ABIT AN8 SLI MB's,
> IT Articles - The Missing Post Mystery
> http://www.pecos-softwareworks.com/

Dynamic Disk is microsoft non-standard own system. You can, of course,
convert to Basic, but only by losing all your data! Mike.

XP versions prior to SP2 will NOT recognize harddrives larger than 137 GB in
any motherboard. In addition, your older motherboard's BIOS will not
recognize larger than 137 GB.

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"Terry" <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Does this limit exist in XP?
> I have a KT7 Raid.
> How do I check if the KT7 will allow larger drives?
>
> I have looked through the manual, but I didn't see it.
>