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Re: File corruptions - Help
Windows 2000 with SP3 or later and Windows XP with SP1 or later support hard drives over 137 GB. If you don't use the latest SP, you're asking for trouble. Also, the big factor is your motherboard. Older boards, even with the latest BIOS can't support drives bigger than 137 GB. However, most drive manufacturers offer a… -
Re: File corruptions - Help
Windows XP? Hard drive failure or virus are my first guesses. What size hard drive are these on?? I had a total loss of 2 160 Gb hard drives last summer with WIN XP, because Win XP did not support greater than 137 GB drives natively. It needs a special driver, and it started kind of like this, intermittent file… -
Re: File corruptions - Help
You are absolutely correct - but this all happened months before anyone ever heard of SP1. There was no announcement by Microsoft or by the drive manufacturer. The box from Western Digital said OK for Windows XP>> NOT!!! And my BIOS were not the problem, the problem was WIN XP did not support drives larger than 137 Gb!… -
Re: File corruptions - Help
I think I found it on the Western digital website. I was really ticked because I had to format and start over with my primary AND my backup drive. Fortuanately I had a third 80Gb drive for storage of my images so they were not compromised. And there was no warning about drives larger than 137 GB not supported by Windows…
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