   Windows or me - I don't know which is more stupid!
  I recently re-installed Windows XP, and since I''m on modem, I didn''t bother downloading their stupid service pack. Everything seemed to work fine and dandy, especially my 200GB harddrive. The problems started right when I was going to have a look at a certain AVI clip I had on it - and it didn''t work. Same with another one, and yet another one...nearly half of the damn files were totally useless!Then it occured to me that WinXP doesn''t support larger drives than 120GB without SP1 and special drivers from the manufacturer - THEN WHY THE HELL DOES IT REPORT DISK SIZE, FREE SPACE AND EVERYTHING AS IT SHOULD?!This faulty reporting had already caused me to write ~3 gigs to the HD, so I''m quite afraid I fux0red a good deal of data up.I can only hope that the data Windows cannot read, it cannot write either, so all the unreadable files will be useable once I have finished updating (which, by the way, will take THREE FUCKING HOURS).   [My Image Gallery (WIP)][Greatest Tetris clone evar!][Return your stolen MP3s] 
  Does this mean that windows will only read to a specific part of the HD? If you can read half of your files, that means half are in the place where Windows CAN read it and half in the place where Windows CAN''T. If you just move the files all into the sector of HD where Windows can read it, it''ll be fixed. Try defragging.Sorry if what I''m saying isn''t true. It was just an idea.   Elben"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will eat for a life time."-Chinese ProverbWiseElben.com - Experience Wisdom;  The problem is that the disk contains more than 120 gigs of data, which probably means demons will start spawning if Windows would try to set it all up as a 120GB drive. After installing the update ("only" 40 minutes left now) and the Maxtor "big drive enabler", I''ll try running scandisk and defrag.   [My Image Gallery (WIP)][Greatest Tetris clone evar!][Return your stolen MP3s] ;  Serves you right for buying a massive hard drive No sane person needs more than 640K, anyway... ;quote:Original post by Promit  No sane person needs more than 640K, anyway...   roofle...you were hardly a sperm when that was first said. ;  Partition the disk...   Resist everyoneI am your only friend. Click here for more information. (MOVED);  Your problem is that it''s too big for standard LBA addressing. Look here for information on installing SP1 (required) and changing the registry to make Windows use 48bit LBA (note: YOUR BIOS MUST SUPPORT IT OR YOU WILL DIE. Though since it worked before I would assume your BIOS does). ;  you are the dumb one for saying "more stupid" instead of "dumber" 