XP will see the full size of the drive. There is also the option of using an
add-on controller card. The new Promise cards will enable the full size of
the drive.

William Pike
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mary Boyes
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:43 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD]

Hi All

Just finished building my first PC.  Had a lot of fun and it was a success
except for the hard drive partition.   The drive is a Maxtor 160GB ultra
series.  Windows only can partition up to 137GB so I can't use all the
storage on the drive.

I found the Maxtor support page on this problem and I downloaded sp1 and
then the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler.  When I installed the Maxtor Big Drive
Enabler it said it was installed but when I went to device manager it said
the size of C  is 131 GB but in the BIOS  and under capacity in device
manager it is 160 and 156 GB.  I am thinking that I need to have winxp with
sp1 before I format and downloading it after is not effective or am I doing
something wrong. Is there a way to get my C drive up to full capacity?

My motherboard is a ASUS P4S8X with a sis648 so I can't use the Intel fix.

I could get an Ultra ATA PCI adapter card if there is no other way and do
another winxp clean install.  Although 137 GB is large enough I still would
like to have the use of all the storage.

Thank you

Mary boyes

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