Greetings to all. Am new to the forum.
The issue at hand: my 200 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive suddenly (and for the first time ever) has limited at 127/137 GB. OS is Windows XP sp3, NTFS.
This HDD is in an eMachine T5212, Intel Pentium D, 2.66mHz with 2 GB RAM. The motherboard driver and BIOS is completely up-to-date.
I regularly reformat every six months or so. Never before has it given me any problems. Everything important is backed-up onto DVD or flash drive, the hard drive wiped (WipeDrive or DBAN) and then do a clean install of Windows XP from a disc slipstreamed with sp3, which is exactly what happened this time.
Well, apparently Murphy's Law has kicked in and for no apparent reason the HDD won't recognize anything above 137 GB. As best I can tell there is no reason why it should be doing this. It is 48-bit LBA enabled, running with WINXP sp3, and during every previous reformat has recognized that the HDD is 200 GB.
In looking for solutions I've tried or attempted several things, none of which have worked:
*Adding "EnableBigLBa" to the registry
*Using My Computer > Manage > Disk Management
*Installing partition utilities to see if partition stretching was possible
*Rebooting with a Windows disc and going through Recovery console
*Switched jumper from "Cable Select" to "Master"
*Ran CHKDSK
Even the Seagate utility "SeaTools" now says Max LBA is 268,435,455 (127 GB).
What is the likely cause for this to happen? :sigh: What other options might be available to fix this?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
The issue at hand: my 200 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive suddenly (and for the first time ever) has limited at 127/137 GB. OS is Windows XP sp3, NTFS.
This HDD is in an eMachine T5212, Intel Pentium D, 2.66mHz with 2 GB RAM. The motherboard driver and BIOS is completely up-to-date.
I regularly reformat every six months or so. Never before has it given me any problems. Everything important is backed-up onto DVD or flash drive, the hard drive wiped (WipeDrive or DBAN) and then do a clean install of Windows XP from a disc slipstreamed with sp3, which is exactly what happened this time.
Well, apparently Murphy's Law has kicked in and for no apparent reason the HDD won't recognize anything above 137 GB. As best I can tell there is no reason why it should be doing this. It is 48-bit LBA enabled, running with WINXP sp3, and during every previous reformat has recognized that the HDD is 200 GB.
In looking for solutions I've tried or attempted several things, none of which have worked:
*Adding "EnableBigLBa" to the registry
*Using My Computer > Manage > Disk Management
*Installing partition utilities to see if partition stretching was possible
*Rebooting with a Windows disc and going through Recovery console
*Switched jumper from "Cable Select" to "Master"
*Ran CHKDSK
Even the Seagate utility "SeaTools" now says Max LBA is 268,435,455 (127 GB).
What is the likely cause for this to happen? :sigh: What other options might be available to fix this?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.