What to do when 160GB Seagate hard disk partition have problems
Posted in Hard Drive Failure by manyu time 5 Apr
I have a 160GB Seagate hard drive divided into 5 districts, and I often meet this problem: when it write files to the last partition (40GB), the system will suddenly lose response, suggesting that the partition does not format after restart. After reformatting it can be used. But this is still recurring. My system is Windows XP (not upgrade). I ask what to do when the big hard disk partition[partition hard drive]problems going on?
A: From your description of the situation, it should caused by not installed the patch that support 48bit LBA. 48bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) is the way that most existing large-capacity hard drive used to access data. it uses 48bit addressing mode to access hard disk every location. Installation and use of large-capacity hard drive, generally we will check whether the motherboard chipset or BIOS supports large-capacity hard drive, but no attention to the operating system will also limit the capacity of the hard disk. Previous Windows 98/Me 32bit addressing mode is used, does not support 48bit LBA mode, so they can not recognize more than 137GB of hard disk space; Windows 2000/XP, while supporting the 48bit LBA, but by default it does not start key features to install patch Caixing. Generally upgrade to Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2, it can support the large capacity hard disk.
