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I think I have a solution to this problem:
This occurs when an old computer is fitted with a hard drive larger
than 137 GB - Unless the PC has LBA support for large hard drives, you
may be aware that xp SP2 and above have LBA support but the motherboard
also has to support it (it should be in the bios if it is supported). If
LBA is not supported in the bios, when windows is installed and the disc
formatted, windows will stop formatting at 137 GB although it tells you
the drive is larger, the parts of the drive are not formatted. When the
disk is filled with data and reaches 137 GB, windows continues to fill
the disk but it will lose the boot sector and the message comes up.
In my case, all the data is good - if swapped to another PC as a slave
drive.
As my pc does not support LBA had to rethink.
I have used a partition software to partition the drive into two parts,
none larger than 137 GB, the first partition to carry windows but much
smaller than the max allowed. I formatted with NTFS both partitions.
When installing windows, I installed on first smaller partition and
formatted that partition with the windows disk. I have copied the data
back accross and will update if this is now successful.
Please note - make sure you back up the data first or use a fresh HDD,
I had bought another one the first time the fault occurred, on refilling
the new HDD the problem occurred, so I still had original HDD to copy
from. WARNING re-partition and format will otherwise lose all data on
the drive.
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philkay
This occurs when an old computer is fitted with a hard drive larger
than 137 GB - Unless the PC has LBA support for large hard drives, you
may be aware that xp SP2 and above have LBA support but the motherboard
also has to support it (it should be in the bios if it is supported). If
LBA is not supported in the bios, when windows is installed and the disc
formatted, windows will stop formatting at 137 GB although it tells you
the drive is larger, the parts of the drive are not formatted. When the
disk is filled with data and reaches 137 GB, windows continues to fill
the disk but it will lose the boot sector and the message comes up.
In my case, all the data is good - if swapped to another PC as a slave
drive.
As my pc does not support LBA had to rethink.
I have used a partition software to partition the drive into two parts,
none larger than 137 GB, the first partition to carry windows but much
smaller than the max allowed. I formatted with NTFS both partitions.
When installing windows, I installed on first smaller partition and
formatted that partition with the windows disk. I have copied the data
back accross and will update if this is now successful.
Please note - make sure you back up the data first or use a fresh HDD,
I had bought another one the first time the fault occurred, on refilling
the new HDD the problem occurred, so I still had original HDD to copy
from. WARNING re-partition and format will otherwise lose all data on
the drive.
--
philkay