Cannot partition New Drive

[Guest Walter R.]

I am using Win XP SP2

 

I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive on my old computer, using a PCI/SATA

controller. In the Device Manager, the drive shows under Disk Drives and as

working properly. The controller shows as a SCSI/Raid Controller and as

working properly.

 

In Disk Management, I let Windows initialize the drive to Basic. The new

drive shows in Windows Disk Management as Disk 2, Basic, online,

unallocated, 465.76 GB (giga).

OK, but when I right click on the drive in Disk Management, I get a choice

between 'Partition' and 'Properties'. When I try to partition the drive,

Windows tells me that the maximum partition can only be 476,939 MB (mega)!!

 

What is wrong?

 

In the Bios, in the IDE HDD Auto Detection, there are only the two existing

IDE drives and the floppy and CD Rom. Where would one normally find the SATA

drive in the BIOS? I cannot not find it anywhere in the Bios.

 

Thanks

 

 

--

Walter

http://www.rationality.net

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[Guest GHalleck]

Re: Cannot partition New Drive

 

 

Walter R. wrote:

> I am using Win XP SP2

>

> I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive on my old computer, using a PCI/SATA

> controller. In the Device Manager, the drive shows under Disk Drives and as

> working properly. The controller shows as a SCSI/Raid Controller and as

> working properly.

>

> In Disk Management, I let Windows initialize the drive to Basic. The new

> drive shows in Windows Disk Management as Disk 2, Basic, online,

> unallocated, 465.76 GB (giga).

> OK, but when I right click on the drive in Disk Management, I get a choice

> between 'Partition' and 'Properties'. When I try to partition the drive,

> Windows tells me that the maximum partition can only be 476,939 MB (mega)!!

>

> What is wrong?

>

> In the Bios, in the IDE HDD Auto Detection, there are only the two existing

> IDE drives and the floppy and CD Rom. Where would one normally find the SATA

> drive in the BIOS? I cannot not find it anywhere in the Bios.

>

> Thanks

>

>

 

Nothing's wrong...really. The first step towards partitioning is to

create the partition. Depending on how the drive is intended to being

used, the partitin could be a primary or extended partition. And by

definition, a partition could be a single drive or a drive consisting

of several logical drives. As a single drive/partition, the maximum

partition can only be 476,936 MB (or 476.9 GB), when 1 byte equals

1 Byte or 456.76 GB (or 456,760 MB), when 1.024 bytes equals 1 Byte.

This is the "Bytes" or "bytes" game in counting.

 

And where one finds a SATA drive really depends on the bios used by

the specific manufacturer and how the manufacturer had it programmed.

Again, if the drive is seen in Windows XP, it has been recognized in

the bios. In this example, the SATA drive would probably show up under

SCSI drives.

[Guest Walter R.]

Re: Cannot partition New Drive

 

Thank you. I was getting befuddled with all these giga and mega bytes. Time

to call it a day.

 

--

Walter

http://www.rationality.net

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"GHalleck" <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote in message

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>

> Walter R. wrote:

>

>> I am using Win XP SP2

>>

>> I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive on my old computer, using a PCI/SATA

>> controller. In the Device Manager, the drive shows under Disk Drives and

>> as

>> working properly. The controller shows as a SCSI/Raid Controller and as

>> working properly.

>>

>> In Disk Management, I let Windows initialize the drive to Basic. The new

>> drive shows in Windows Disk Management as Disk 2, Basic, online,

>> unallocated, 465.76 GB (giga).

>> OK, but when I right click on the drive in Disk Management, I get a

>> choice

>> between 'Partition' and 'Properties'. When I try to partition the drive,

>> Windows tells me that the maximum partition can only be 476,939 MB

>> (mega)!!

>>

>> What is wrong?

>>

>> In the Bios, in the IDE HDD Auto Detection, there are only the two

>> existing

>> IDE drives and the floppy and CD Rom. Where would one normally find the

>> SATA

>> drive in the BIOS? I cannot not find it anywhere in the Bios.

>>

>> Thanks

>>

>>

>

> Nothing's wrong...really. The first step towards partitioning is to

> create the partition. Depending on how the drive is intended to being

> used, the partitin could be a primary or extended partition. And by

> definition, a partition could be a single drive or a drive consisting

> of several logical drives. As a single drive/partition, the maximum

> partition can only be 476,936 MB (or 476.9 GB), when 1 byte equals

> 1 Byte or 456.76 GB (or 456,760 MB), when 1.024 bytes equals 1 Byte.

> This is the "Bytes" or "bytes" game in counting.

>

> And where one finds a SATA drive really depends on the bios used by

> the specific manufacturer and how the manufacturer had it programmed.

> Again, if the drive is seen in Windows XP, it has been recognized in

> the bios. In this example, the SATA drive would probably show up under

> SCSI drives.

[Guest Brian A.]

Re: Cannot partition New Drive

 

"Walter R." <wer25@example.com> wrote in message

news:%23lPEDEm3IHA.776@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>I am using Win XP SP2

>

> I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive on my old computer, using a PCI/SATA

> controller. In the Device Manager, the drive shows under Disk Drives and as

> working properly. The controller shows as a SCSI/Raid Controller and as

> working properly.

>

> In Disk Management, I let Windows initialize the drive to Basic. The new

> drive shows in Windows Disk Management as Disk 2, Basic, online, unallocated,

> 465.76 GB (giga).

> OK, but when I right click on the drive in Disk Management, I get a choice

> between 'Partition' and 'Properties'. When I try to partition the drive,

> Windows tells me that the maximum partition can only be 476,939 MB (mega)!!

>

> What is wrong?

>

> In the Bios, in the IDE HDD Auto Detection, there are only the two existing

> IDE drives and the floppy and CD Rom. Where would one normally find the SATA

> drive in the BIOS? I cannot not find it anywhere in the Bios.

 

You won't find the drive in the BIOS if you're using an add-on controller

card. The Controller card has it's own BIOS and should be detected during boot

at which time it should detect and show the connected drive.

 

 

--

 

 

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

Conflicts start where information lacks.

http://basconotw.mvps.org/

 

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm

How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: Cannot partition New Drive

 

"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message

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> "Walter R." <wer25@example.com> wrote in message

> news:%23lPEDEm3IHA.776@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>I am using Win XP SP2

>>

>> I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive on my old computer, using a PCI/SATA

>> controller. In the Device Manager, the drive shows under Disk Drives and

>> as

>> working properly. The controller shows as a SCSI/Raid Controller and as

>> working properly.

>>

>> In Disk Management, I let Windows initialize the drive to Basic. The new

>> drive shows in Windows Disk Management as Disk 2, Basic, online,

>> unallocated, 465.76 GB (giga).

>> OK, but when I right click on the drive in Disk Management, I get a

>> choice

>> between 'Partition' and 'Properties'. When I try to partition the drive,

>> Windows tells me that the maximum partition can only be 476,939 MB

>> (mega)!!

>>

>> What is wrong?

>>

>> In the Bios, in the IDE HDD Auto Detection, there are only the two

>> existing

>> IDE drives and the floppy and CD Rom. Where would one normally find the

>> SATA

>> drive in the BIOS? I cannot not find it anywhere in the Bios.

>

> You won't find the drive in the BIOS if you're using an add-on controller

> card. The Controller card has it's own BIOS and should be detected during

> boot at which time it should detect and show the connected drive.

>

>

> --

>

>

> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

> Conflicts start where information lacks.

> http://basconotw.mvps.org/

>

> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm

> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

>

>

 

Just a heads up about something I noticed regarding some add-on cards and

their corresponding bios at boot time. Using analog video mode, all is

visible during boot time including the add-on cards bios results in finding

or not finding a hard drive. In digital video mode, just a blank screen

during that add-on card's part of the routine.

--

Dave

 

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sensitive places. Question is, will that oil

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[Guest Anna]

Re: Cannot partition New Drive

 

 

"Walter R." <wer25@example.com> wrote in message

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>I am using Win XP SP2

>

> I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive on my old computer, using a PCI/SATA

> controller.

(SNIP)

> When I try to partition the drive, Windows tells me that the maximum

> partition can only be 476,939 MB mega!!

>

> What is wrong?

(SNIP)

> Thanks

> --

> Walter

> http://www.rationality.net

 

 

Walter:

As you have heard there's nothing wrong with the way the disk size was

reported. In most cases a HDD advertised as 500 GB will actually be about

465 GB in binary terms. 476, 939 MB "translated" to gigabytes will be about

465 GB.

 

You might want to take a look at http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

which has a neat online conversion calculator re bytes, KB, MB, GB, etc.

Anna