Fried HD

[Pacman]

No worries...it was my XP partition and all FO related folders are on an external one :)

It was my last IDE HD 80GB maxtor that fried...luckily I had a hunch of it slowing down lately to only a mere 4MB/ sec data transfer. So I made a back up on my WD 250

I'm looking at buying a new one...very probably a Western Digital 250GB 16 Mb Cache.
Now apparently they are all SATA2 and my question is wether my mobo supports it. Can't really find something on it.

GA-965P-DQ6

On the box it says:

SATA 3GB connectors
UDMA ATA 100/ 66/ 33 connector

Anybody know the difference between these?
WD-5000ABYS and the WD-5000AAKS ?
Technically they seem the same...still their prices are quite different.

I was also thinking of going for a raptor, since it'll be used for my XP and gaming,...but they are way too small in size.
Any idea's or suggestions?

Thx,

Dirk

[Deckerd]

SATA 3GB(?? 300MB/s ?) means SATA2. Wouldn't make any difference though. If your mobo is sata 1 your hdds will have to be jumpered to run at 150 MB/s.

The ...ABYS is Raid Edition. it's said to live longer/ have a higher mtbf

[Pacman]

Thx Deckerd,

mtbf?

[Nikolas_A]

Thx Deckerd,

mtbf?

Mean time between failures

[Pacman]

ah ok thx ;)

[Deckerd]

You're welcome. I'm glad you didn't lost your data. :)

[Pacman]

My system was drastically losing speed and reaction time.
It became apparent that the HD was on a lot more then usual so I did a little check with a HD tool.

The moment I found out I did the transfer.

I'm thinking of buying the AAKS version of the WD5000 or 7500...
WD has never crashed on me (yet, fingers crossed) so I think I'll be good with the AAKS.

[Pacman]

I had to wait too long so I took the Barracuda 500GB from Seagate.
The misery is already starting.

I put in the HD, got it connected on a SATA2 and started up with the windows XP disk.

Now it says it wants to install on a 131070MB partition, which is weird as it is supposed to be a 500GB drive?
Anybody know what is going on here?


Dirk

[Pacman]

For anybody that doesn't know the solution.

I found this on hardwareforums.com

A: When XP shipped came out, 120GB was about the largest capacity around. However the 28-bit hard drive addressing in hardware was at 137GB. Beyond that, new hardware (or a firmware update) was required on the hardware side.

Hardware support has been out for a few years, however, since Windows XP shipped before it was an issue, the software aspect wasn't implemented yet.

Fortunately, the fix is quite simple. Microsoft added support for drives over 137GB with Service Pack 1 for Windows XP. Service Packs are cumulative, so you can skip SP1 and just get Service Pack 2.

Once you update to SP 1 or later, you will be able to see the full capacity for any drive out that's over 137GB with no issues. For Windows 2000 users, you will need Service Pack 4 for support over 137GB.

You may also slipstream the Service Pack so that you have the hard drive support (and the updates) from the start.

Now, you'll probably notice that once you have updated to SP1 or 2 (or SP4 for Win2k) that you don't automatically get the full size for access. Updating to said Service Pack only allows XP/2k to be able to access the full drive size, it does NOT format or expand partititions. Windows does not have any native tools to merge partitions, but you can purchase 3rd party software do do this for you.

How would you format the additional space? Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management, and expand the Storage heading if it's not that way already. Click on 'Disk Management' here to see all drives on your system. Any drive that's been formatted and has data on it past 137GB will now be accessible, but you will need to format any remaining un-partitioned spaces. Right-click on the free space you wish to format to bring up a menu. One of the options will be to format the drive. If some of the other drives aren't showing up under 'My Computer', right-click on them to bring up the aformentioned menu. Another option available is to change or assign a drive letter.

[Deckerd]

Ah yes, this is a common pain in the a**. IMO the best way is to make a WINXP SP2 cd. There is various software on the internet to make a good iso with servicepacks, updates and drivers(SATA chipset etc.) For example NLite (http://www.nliteos.com/guide/). In order to test your iso(you really want to test it) us a virtual PC like VirtualPC or VMWare

[RodemusPrime]

I was also thinking of going for a raptor, since it'll be used for my XP and gaming,...but they are way too small in size.
Any idea's or suggestions?

Thx,

Dirk

I'd suggest getting 2 or 4 Raptors(150Gb each) and run in RAID0

[kydius]

No worries...it was my XP partition and all FO related folders are on an external one :)

Well, I hope you also backed up this precious data somewhere else since you are surely aware that this external HD isn't immune from failing either :tongue: