Directory Corrupt

[planetfall]

My bios says that my slave 160 Gb HD is only 138 or so.

I think this is because that is the largest it can detect... (auto selected in the cmos, manual selected did no good... how do I know how many bloody cylinders this has? It's installed!)

I can use my drive fine, but after a while all my files and dir's will become corrupt and the drive will lose it's formatting! Files gone!

I thought this was because of the search indexing service for the drive, I've stopped using that but this still happens!

When I did use indexing service at least scandisk would recover some files...

The bios update doesn't appear to address this larger drive issue...

OS= Win2Kpro

AV=Avast

FW=ZoneAlarm Pro

Thanks in advance!


Jeffery

[elroy]

Sounds like maybe your bios doesn't support drives larger then 137gb. I run my 160gb drive through an ATA133 controller card that came packaged with the drive.

[planetfall]

So I can plug in an ATA133 controller card and not use the master/slave config? That plugs into an expansion slot? What brand do you use? Thanks!

[planetfall]

is this a good one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=39967

[jmichna]

Jeffery,
Before you buy a controller, why not see if your mobo manufacturer has a BIOS update that will support drives above 137GB.

Check with the motherboard manufacturer to determine if the latest update supports 48-bit LBA. If it does not, we do not recommend updating your BIOS unless you have a valid reason.

See link http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di.../137/bios.html for more info.