WARNING: WinXP and big HDs
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- pr2
Just a friednly advice to anyone concidering buing a big (over 120GB) HD and instaling it under WinXP -- don't do it. It will take away 5 years from your youth and make at least 3 of your hair gray. I finaly got it to work but i was on the werge of shotting somone.
- nLHb0
:O
- MACAS00
Really, try getting a few of those working togheter.
- jox1
yeah? I have two 160 GB disks installed, works like a charm, no problem setting it up or anything.
- JazX1
that's damn true
- Mick0
No probs here also - perhaps it's a user error ;)
- AD___________0
gotta hate those user errors...
at least we can still blame Microsoft, for them ;)
- meter0
the deal is you sometimes need to disable write caching... at least that's what happened for me. but until i figured that out i was getting delayed write errors and lost some important shit.
- warheros0
shitty...never had any HD problems with XP, using SATA.
- PhonyMcRingRing0
ahh... big HDs on XP are a bitch. The stupid ass HD makers are no help either. Try Intel's Application Accelerator next time
- pr2-1
yo, meter how did you do it? i'm about to return 2 HDs and get 2 below 120GB because i get Delayed Write Failed when i full the drive to over 100GB... shit i can't resolve it.
- PhonyMcRingRing0
If your HD is running off a controller card, make sure that the controller card's BIOS is up to date. You should be able to find updates at the manufacturer's site.
Next, make sure that you've got at least SP1 patched into your WinXP.
Then make sure that your ATAPI.SYS file is up to date, follow the instructions here:
http://support.microsoft.com/def…
That's what got my 200GB working... good luck!
- moth0
I recently put in a second 160Gb and it works fine. Although - I have only used about 3Gb on it.
- atomica0
Never had a problem I have three 120+ gig uata133 drives and they've never given me grief. I had a 60 gig fail on here once or twice before in the past... i think it was a drive gone bad though.
- gekkokid0
no probs here either
- vwsung18t0
no probs with 2 250GB HD's and 2 more 250GB USB HDs, i also have each drive partitioned as two 125GB drives each.
- pr2-1
yeah, but how full are you guys? mine were working fine until reaching the 137GB limit. and then it started giving me the Delayed Write Errors and corrupting files. I turned that shit off and everything seems to be fine for now. Nevertheless if i had another choice i would just change the 2 HDs for 2
- fifty500
i'm pretty sure being a PC user in general takes off about 5 years of your life
- mobius0
hmm...
ive got a 90gb hd and its running like a hag. pardon me but how do you 'tweek' it to run/perform better under winXP? im a noob when it comes to these sorta stuff.
- phirschybar0
Does this relate to external HDs that you hook up by firewire every once in a while or just your main drive?
- pr2-1
every, including FireWire HD.
as posted before you have to have WinXP SP1 (install it from microsoft website) then you need to to have the lates drivers (go to your HD maker's website and search knowledge database). Then you need to turn of that Delayed Write...
oh and noone shoul tell you that getting a RAID card will solve all the problems.