Hi all

This is my first post at D-A-L .I am facing a strange problem right now.I installed a 160gb Seagate SATA HDD and using Seagate disc-wizard initialized and formatted it.Since i didn't know whether my system supports 48bit lba i went for 127gb limit only.The disc wizard suggested this and i went ahead with its automatic initialization and formatting of the new drive .But this is not the problem...
My computer hangs when i try to copy say 50mb files into it.When i copy small files like 1 mb size it works but fails for large files...My computer freezes and i need to restart it .
(since size is limited to 127 gb ..i don't think "48 bit lba support" could be the cause of the problem)

Can anybody help me out !Any help would be immensely appreciated!!!

Are you running XP SP2? Even under SP1 that limit was eradicated.

There is in general no need to use any installer but check your Disk Management:

right click My Computer then click Manage then Disk Management

From Disk Management I would re-Format it to NTFS and try again.

Of course if you have placed any data on it back it up first as all will be lost.

OS Information:
Property Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partitio n1
Service Pack 2.0
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS


Processor:
Property Value
Current Clock Speed 2004
Description x86 Family 15 Model 12 Stepping 0
Manufacturer AuthenticAMD
Name AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+


Memory (RAM):
Property Value
Bank Label BANK0
Capacity 1073741824

Bank Label BANK1
Capacity 536870912

Total Memory Deteced in Hardware: ~1536 MB
Memory Reported to Operating System: 1503MB

Disk Drives:
Property Value
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model SAMSUNG SV2042H
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Size 20406919680 (~19 GB)
Number of Partitions 4

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST316021 1AS SCSI Disk Device
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Size 160039272960 (~149 GB)
Number of Partitions 1

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST380817 AS SCSI Disk Device
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Size 80023749120 (~75 GB)
Number of Partitions 4

Motherboard:
Property Value
Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model
Name Base Board
Part Number
Product K8S-MX
Serial Number MB-1234567890
Version Rev 1.xx


BIOS:
Property Value
Manufacturer American Megatrends Inc.
Name BIOS Date: 12/10/04 11:33:51 Ver: 08.00.11
Release Date 20041210000000.000000+000
Version A M I - 12000410


Thanks for the reply
Above are my system specs
I dont think the problem here revolves around 48bit lba capability.I am restricting the new drive size from 160 to 127 gb so that even if i dont have that capability my system could work with the new drive.

and yes i did format it to NTFS (and fat32 earlier..i exhausted all types)using Disc wizard and disk management tool too...RIght now its in
NTFS 4kB 127 gb state.BUt the problem exists.

Thank you again
Regards
Ambar

And also if i continue work so that my 80gb sata and 20gb ide are active only i can work as long as i can without seeing my computer freeze.This new drive seems to be source of the problem.
Pity my less knowledge of hardware but does wrong( may be i am wrong at setting these things) primary master slave settings have any such ill effects??
These are my settings:

Thanks
Ambar

SATA drives don't actually have Master and Slave settings. The diagnostics software that you've used is wrong to refer to your SATA drives as 3rd Master and 4th Master. The reason that SATA doesn't use Master and Slave is because there is only one drive on each SATA cable. This means that Slave drives cannot exist.

When you look at the drive in Windows XP's Disk Management screen, does it show it as a 160GB with a 127GB partition and 33GB free space? Or does it think that the whole drive is only 127GB? I would try to make Windows see it as a single 160GB partition and see if that fixes it.