Hi guys.. i bought a new western digital 200gb drive last wekk and put it into an icecube enclosure.
originally the drive was recognised as a 130gb drive though xp (after some usb 2 driver updates). I went for the quick fix and I put the drive into an ide slot in my tower and formatted it there to 189GB, ntfs, logical partition.
taking the drive back into the enclosure, it then read the correct 190 GB of free space.
but i want to partition the drive to suit my work into 4 partitions.
trying to partition it through the encluser again, only yielded a total free space of 130 GB to make parttions in.
So i put it back in the tower, partitioned it how i wanted and put it back into the enclosure. Now it doesnt read any drives at all and inspection into the device manager shows that the Western digital drive is 'unavailable'.
i know that the usb2 spec wont limit my drive size, and it is ntfs so again, no limts in size for me. What the heck is going on? :no:
tho i need the partitions, if forced to i will have to use the 1 190gb partition. Is this safe though, giving that the external setup doesnt seem to read the space beyond 130GB?
all help is soooo greatly appreciated!
originally the drive was recognised as a 130gb drive though xp (after some usb 2 driver updates). I went for the quick fix and I put the drive into an ide slot in my tower and formatted it there to 189GB, ntfs, logical partition.
taking the drive back into the enclosure, it then read the correct 190 GB of free space.
but i want to partition the drive to suit my work into 4 partitions.
trying to partition it through the encluser again, only yielded a total free space of 130 GB to make parttions in.
So i put it back in the tower, partitioned it how i wanted and put it back into the enclosure. Now it doesnt read any drives at all and inspection into the device manager shows that the Western digital drive is 'unavailable'.
i know that the usb2 spec wont limit my drive size, and it is ntfs so again, no limts in size for me. What the heck is going on? :no:
tho i need the partitions, if forced to i will have to use the 1 190gb partition. Is this safe though, giving that the external setup doesnt seem to read the space beyond 130GB?
all help is soooo greatly appreciated!