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The other day my Windows (XP pro) crashed. I have a 40GB hard drive and a
200GB hard drive. Both drives are Maxtors. I like to make my 40GB my main
drive. I heard that Windows XP doesn't recognize any hard drive more than
120GB. Is that true?



Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my hard drive.
I remember last year when I put it in. I had to press something
(F-something button) during the windows installation. Then it would load a
driver of some sort that it would recognize the D drive. But I can't
remember what it was now. Does anyone know how can I get this working? I
appreciate your help.



Adam

Adam wrote:
> The other day my Windows (XP pro) crashed. I have a 40GB hard drive and a
> 200GB hard drive. Both drives are Maxtors. I like to make my 40GB my main
> drive. I heard that Windows XP doesn't recognize any hard drive more than
> 120GB. Is that true?
>
>
<snip>

nope that's not true at all...
of course it's possible your machines bios may have a problem

"Adam" <> wrote in message
newsfkuf.10112$...
> The other day my Windows (XP pro) crashed. I have a 40GB hard drive and a
> 200GB hard drive. Both drives are Maxtors. I like to make my 40GB my
> main drive. I heard that Windows XP doesn't recognize any hard drive more
> than 120GB. Is that true?
>
>
>
> Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my hard
> drive. I remember last year when I put it in. I had to press something
> (F-something button) during the windows installation. Then it would load
> a driver of some sort that it would recognize the D drive. But I can't
> remember what it was now. Does anyone know how can I get this working? I
> appreciate your help.
>
>
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>

Sounds like you are a bit confused. Hard drives do not come with SCSI cards
in them. You may have a SCSI card installed in a PCI slot on the
motherboard inside you tower is more like it.

Pressing F6 when prompted during the installation will allow you to install
a third party driver for a SCSI card. Be sure you have the driver handy
just in case Windows does not.

Good luck!

"Adam" <> wrote in message
newsfkuf.10112$...
> The other day my Windows (XP pro) crashed. I have a 40GB hard drive and a
> 200GB hard drive. Both drives are Maxtors. I like to make my 40GB my
> main drive. I heard that Windows XP doesn't recognize any hard drive more
> than 120GB. Is that true?
>
>
>
> Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my hard
> drive. I remember last year when I put it in. I had to press something
> (F-something button) during the windows installation. Then it would load
> a driver of some sort that it would recognize the D drive. But I can't
> remember what it was now. Does anyone know how can I get this working? I
> appreciate your help.
>
>
>
> Adam
>

I have a 13 GB HD and a 240 GB hard drive in my system with no problem.

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10_4 spewed forth:
> "Adam" <> wrote in message
> newsfkuf.10112$...
>>
>> Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my hard
>> drive.
> Sounds like you are a bit confused. Hard drives do not come with
> SCSI cards in them.

It's pretty amazing how many people call their system a "hard drive" or a
"cpu". It's a "box", or a "tower", or a "system", or a "PC", or probably
lots of other names/nicks*- but the amazing lack of education just scares me
<g>


*my favorite nickname for the old tube-type HAM radios was "pizza warmer".
Boy, they could sure do that

--
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories...

"Adam" <> wrote in
newsfkuf.10112$:

> The other day my Windows (XP pro) crashed. I have a 40GB hard drive
> and a 200GB hard drive. Both drives are Maxtors. I like to make my
> 40GB my main drive. I heard that Windows XP doesn't recognize any
> hard drive more than 120GB. Is that true?
>

The original XP wouldn't support hard disks larger than 137 GB. You need
XP with SP1 at least.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013

>
> Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my hard
> drive. I remember last year when I put it in. I had to press
> something (F-something button) during the windows installation. Then
> it would load a driver of some sort that it would recognize the D
> drive. But I can't remember what it was now. Does anyone know how
> can I get this working? I appreciate your help.
>

As you aren't using the 200 GB drive for windows, you can install the
SCSI driver _after_ you have installed XP and the necessary updates.


--
fred

"Toolman Tim" <> wrote in message
news:usnuf.122$...
> In news:bP6dnbX8AOZvaSTeRVn-,
> 10_4 spewed forth:
>> "Adam" <> wrote in message
>> newsfkuf.10112$...
>>>
>>> Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my hard
>>> drive.
>> Sounds like you are a bit confused. Hard drives do not come with
>> SCSI cards in them.
>
> It's pretty amazing how many people call their system a "hard drive" or a
> "cpu". It's a "box", or a "tower", or a "system", or a "PC", or probably
> lots of other names/nicks*- but the amazing lack of education just scares
> me <g>
>
>
> *my favorite nickname for the old tube-type HAM radios was "pizza warmer".
> Boy, they could sure do that
>
> --
> Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories...
>

Tim,

My all time favorite is when the computer is called a modem. Talked on the
phone with a client several minutes discussing modem problems when I finally
figured out she was talking about the computer in general. Diagnostics
proved to have a failed hard drive.

In news:qOydnbwe2Zz8CCfeRVn-,
10_4 spewed forth:
> "Toolman Tim" <> wrote in message
> news:usnuf.122$...
>> In news:bP6dnbX8AOZvaSTeRVn-,
>> 10_4 spewed forth:
>>> "Adam" <> wrote in message
>>> newsfkuf.10112$...
>>>>
>>>> Originally, I had both drives working. I have a SCSI card in my
>>>> hard drive.
>>> Sounds like you are a bit confused. Hard drives do not come with
>>> SCSI cards in them.
>>
>> It's pretty amazing how many people call their system a "hard drive"
>> or a "cpu". It's a "box", or a "tower", or a "system", or a "PC", or
>> probably lots of other names/nicks*- but the amazing lack of
>> education just scares me <g>
>>
>>
>> *my favorite nickname for the old tube-type HAM radios was "pizza
>> warmer". Boy, they could sure do that
>>
>> --
>> Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories...
>>
>
> Tim,
>
> My all time favorite is when the computer is called a modem. Talked
> on the phone with a client several minutes discussing modem problems
> when I finally figured out she was talking about the computer in
> general. Diagnostics proved to have a failed hard drive.

Exactly <g>! And think how much time it took to get that far...time you (and
the client) can never recover.

--
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories...

Adam wrote:
>
> drive. I heard that Windows XP doesn't recognize any hard drive more than
> 120GB. Is that true?

No.



--
http://www.bootdisk.com/

Toolman Tim wrote:
>
> *my favorite nickname for the old tube-type HAM radios was "pizza warmer".
> Boy, they could sure do that

I always had the thought of getting into that, including of course
adding the notorious 30 foot antenna.

But, I'm in a low area next to a river, just a few feet above sea level
with hills around, and there is email, which of couse lets you talk
world wide.