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W2K Server on PC Can't see 250GB disk

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by scifiman

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I have a IBM S50 PC that I removed the 40GB disk and put in 250GB disk. BIOS is up to date and it knows it is a 250GB drive. It can only see half of the 250GB disk. Loaded W2K server, no help. Put it as a slave on a W2K Pro pc and same problem. Slaved it on a XP Pro box and it see's the other half as unallocated. I formatted portion and put it back in the S50 and it shows up now as the C: drive and a second F: drive, but I can't do anything with it. If I then delete that F: drive the C: becomes a 128GB disk and the other half is lost again until I get it on a XP system to get the other half back.

Is this a W2K problem? Do I need a IDE controller or raid card to run such a large drive? The goal is the machine will run SQL for developers, plus extra space will be consolidated file share for all the misc. developer files. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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by mgonzales

Did you try the drivers that came with the drive? I have seen that correct this problem.

by scifiman

Sort of. I found a utility from Western Digital (Data Lifeguard) that fixes the 137GB limitation. Fortuneately this is a WD drive. I shouldn't have the problem though. Supposedly W2K SP3 and later OS's do not have this limitation, and this PC is W2K Server with SP4. As an alternative I see CompUSA has a $40 IDE controller card (from SIIG) that will fix it also. Thanks!

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