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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...

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...

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?

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