Hey peeps… I just got a 160gb seagate hard drive, got it home plugged 'er in etc. The computer regonises it, even in windows it says it is working ok but when I go to my computer it isn’t there. Is there a patch or something I need or something I need to configure? I’m on XP Home with SP2 and all other updates…
Cheers, Johnny
no you shouldnt need to patch your computer !?
hmm
you need to format it though for it to work… I cant exactly remember if home xp has this function but try this
1 right click on my computer and click manage
2 goto disk managment and you should see your 160 gb drive listed in the bottom right window
3 if you see it right click on it and click format and give it a partition letter of whatever you want.
hope the helps you out.
That didn’t work… the drive doesn’t come up at the top :|. It comes up in the wee bottom window (lol) but it won’t let me format it or assign it to a letter. Any other ideas?
I would go to the segate website and get one of their partrition programs that are run from dos. Make sure that it comes up in there and format it for the hell of it.
I remember win98 could only see 8G max and that you needed an overlay program to have it show the full drive size. I dont know if XP has a limit or not.
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I would have gotten to 80GB drives as it would be faster as there is less to search, also you have a 50/50 chance of saving you work should a drive die, or a 100% chance to save your work if you set up a raid.
@vulcan - I was running Win98 for 2 years with 40GB, then 1 more year with a second hard drive adding to a total of 120GB, so I don’t think that’s the problem 
@rockstar - If this is your second hard drive it might be because your BIOS doesn’t accept more that a set limit. I know I had that problem when I stuck in my second HD. Sadly, I can’t remember what was done to solve it, but I will ask my dad - he’ll remember.
@vulcan - I was running Win98 for 2 years with 40GB, then 1 more year with a second hard drive adding to a total of 120GB, so I don’t think that’s the problem
Yeah but you couldn’t plug and play a 8G + hard drive in as windows only recognised the first 8G of it. I installed a 20G hard drive and windows only saw it as a 8G. I had to use a segate program to get windows to recognise that it was over 8G.
I wouldn’t think that 160G would be a problem for XP, but it does have limits to it. What they are I dont know.
Do you mean as your first drive or as an aditional drive?
One of the things I’m seeing is that Segate has a few little issues, seeing how both yourself and feiry have had trouble with them. I’m starting to wonder if the reason I didn’t have trouble has to do with the fact that my drives are by IBM and Western Digital.
EDIT: oh yeah, I was running 98SE, if that makes a difference.
there’s a thing in windows that only allows the drives to be read upto 127Gb
i’m having this problem atm. there is a patch for it (i cba downloading) that you can get off the microsoft website
not sure what the link is though. sorry
I would have gotten to 80GB drives as it would be faster as there is less to search, also you have a 50/50 chance of saving you work should a drive die, or a 100% chance to save your work if you set up a raid
I never thought of that, cheers. that’ll probably come in useful at some point.
@rockstar - If this is your second hard drive it might be because your BIOS doesn’t accept more that a set limit. I know I had that problem when I stuck in my second HD. Sadly, I can’t remember what was done to solve it, but I will ask my dad - he’ll remember.
It wasn’t the bios because both the bios and even Windows were saying that the drive was connected and running properly.
Yeah but you couldn’t plug and play a 8G + hard drive in as windows only recognised the first 8G of it. I installed a 20G hard drive and windows only saw it as a 8G. I had to use a segate program to get windows to recognise that it was over 8G.
I’d say thats probably true, I remember a few years back I had Windows ME and I installed a hard drive (can’t remember any figures) but I needed a patch for it to regonise the full size of the drive.
I discovered that I just needed to format the drive and assignt it to a letter which was eventually doable (to think I got an A* in English…) with the right click my computer>manage tool thingy majiger.
For future referance for anyone whos interested I discovered on my travels that XP only allows you to use drives up to 120gb or something like that without SP1, but the patch for larger drives comes with SP1 so your safe if you have it. Looks like all the people with copied OS’s are slightly screwed there 
Cheers to everyone for all your help!
Johnny
I would have gotten to 80GB drives as it would be faster as there is less to search, also you have a 50/50 chance of saving you work should a drive die, or a 100% chance to save your work if you set up a raid.
How do you have a 100% chance of saving your work with raid? Is raid not just a system for multiple hard drives?
For future referance for anyone whos interested I discovered on my travels that XP only allows you to use drives up to 120gb or something like that without SP1
Having looked into it more, people were saying 132Gb, but yeah it was addressed in the update.
How do you have a 100% chance of saving your work with raid? Is raid not just a system for multiple hard drives?
I believe that you set one to be a photocopy of the other.
Would it be possible to set up two firewire drives like that?
I don’t know anything about setting up RAID’s or what equipment/software you need to get it to work. Sorry…
kk no probs. I start a graphics design course in a few days so I guess having two hard drives with raid level 0 would be pretty **** useful so I don’t lose anything but the drives would have to be firewire as I’ll be doing all my work on my laptop so I can’t add another two hard drives… does anyone know if you can use raid on firewire drives?
http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/RAID.htm
This tutorial will take you through the steps involved in setting up a RAID array. In this case the array will be a single RAID 1 (mirror) array, set up in the context of a new system build in which the RAID array is partitioned and Windows XP installed in the C: partition. The tutorial will cover each of the following:
* creating a floppy containing the third party RAID Controller drivers
* configuring the RAID array
* installing the RAID Controller drivers
* partitioning the RAID array
* formatting the drive partitions
* installing Windows.
In the case of this tutorial, the controller in question is an integrated GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller. The procedure outlined will be similar for other manufacturer’s controllers.
They have the raid control built into the motherboard, I dont know if yours has one, or if you can get a card seperate for it.
Check this out: http://www.shop21.uk.com/en-gb/dept_30.html and scroll down to the Miglia Mediabank HS-R - Hot Swap Raid 1 FireWire Dual Bay Case. Mmmmm… sexy…
[edit] The problem there is cost… with hard drives that would probably cost me about 450 quid… thats a looooooot of money… [/edit]
ha ha 
I was going to say sweet, but it ain’t cheap…
Yeah it’s a lot of money. But on the upside if I did get it I could use it the whole way through uni and I’d never have to worry about any of my work going missing. Hell, I could probs have it for the rest of my life and just occasionaly change the hard drives when they get rusty.
With two good quality, Western Digital, 40gb hard drives (which would be enough space because its just to hold website designs…) the whole package would cost me £435. Might be a worthwhile investment :).
Yeah or you could just burn a cd once a week or fortnight for .50c
lol I never thought of that 
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