250GB Maxtor MaxLine 3 on Acer Aspire 1700

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

Hello folks,

I'm trying to upgrade my Aspire 1700 portable with a 250GB HDD.

Previous attempts:
install the disk and ghost -> data corruption when writing beyond 120GB.
Detection in Windows is OK. No possibility to set anything HDD related in BIOS.

Now, I tried using the MaxBlast 4 utility, but the DDO options are greyed out. Formatting the drive with it's partition manager just likes formats the drive without doing anything special...

I found in a PDF, hidden somewhere deeply on the Maxtor site, that the DDO solution can not be implemented on Serial ATA and ATA/133 hosts.

Is that true or just BS?

If it true, d*mn...

If not, what do I need to do to get this baby working? Nowhere I can find any manual relating to the MaxBlast (or any like application) which explain me when the program adds the DDO software and when not...

[NickS]

Ghost may be limited by the BIOS, or it could be a native limitation in the version of Ghost; I have used an old version of Ghost to back up to a Maxtor 250 GB ATA/133 but only up to 128GB (deliberately, as that is the limit for Windows ME). Can you live with 2 partitions, making the first partition 128GB?

Actually, there are already 4 partitions on the disk!

the first 25, then 2 of 30 and the last one is just what's left.

The corruption occurs when copying data in Windows XP SP2, beyond 120GB (I think, calculated value, first three partitions + data on fourth)

It seems like he just continues copying in the beginning of the disk, thus overwriting the first partition...

[NickS]

Have you tried your version of Ghost on a PC with a BIOS that does support HDD>137GB? If so, did it work?
What version of Ghost do you have?

Hallo...

I am thiking to buy excactly the same Hard drive. actually Max line III 300GB serial ATA SATA 3GB the actual modle number is 7V300S0

I also have the aspire 1700 ...


So Owanneke ... did you manage it to work? or Not ?

and something else .. how did you manage to connect the serial ATA hd on the motherboard ?

Oh and something last for everyone .. maybe I did not understood right ... but if lets say I devide the partitions in 100 GB per partition then wouldnt everything work just fine ?


P.S. Hallo to all the forum !

I never got it to work, never found a BIOS supporting this drive.
Have you?

[edwin]

you need SP2 for XP for partitions on a disk beyond 128GB...