>137g, error Can not read from Hard Disk

I have to explain this, so please bare(right bare?) with me here. I bought a 160gig U/ATA 133 maxtor 2weeks ago, loaded up my OS and made me old 120gig WD the slave. It would lag when i accessed the WD, like if i played MP3's off of the drive while running WoW off the primary I could notice the lag. I soon got close to the 137gig barrier, but thought my mobo of a 1800xp chip could support that. Well one night I was xfering a lot of files and I breached it, I couldnt right anymore although windows was saying i still had free space, 137gigs / 160gigs. So I restarted and got the Hard Disk read error before even loading to windows.

Then I noticed my bios only shows 137gigs, and i was like shit that is that lba48 barrier POS mobo. So I loaded up Windows XP recovery. I could see my windows dir fine, and on the root I could SEE the other folders, but not access them. So I did a checkdisk, twice. The first time it was really fast, and the second it took FOREVER, like 5-6 hours. Both didnt fix anything. So I bought a Software RAID PCI U/ATA 133 controller, with 2 channels. It was no loss reall because I was going to buy it anyway. I then placed it in and I still cant access the drive, same error. This time I cant even access the Windows Recovery, it just says the "Windows is configuring", the thing it says before it even gets to the blue screen. This has happened before when I had linux installed, and I was trying to install Windows. I had to format the drive for it to see it :\.

So I went on the internet and searched around and found this http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm. I loaded it up and sure enough I can actually ACCESS the files . But I want it to boot up. I think what has happened is the chkdisk I did corrupted some files and I would like to do it again on my PCI RAID controller. But I cant load up to the windows recovery console. And i have been looking EVERYWHERE for a dos boot up disk or something with a CHECKDISK in it. But I can not find any anywhere! I have even downloaded Maxtors own program, and did some HDD checks, and it checks out fine. But it would even if there is corrupted files, that just checks the HDD.

So in conclusion, does anyone have any floppy disk bootable check disk programs . Or know anything that can help me.

Thanks in advance.

 

Howdy,
For the the bootdisks you can goto bootdisk.com. Or you can get my personal favorite, Ulimate Boot CD, which has a lot of utilities. It is a large file though, wouldn't recommend downloading it on dialup. You can get it at www.ultimatebootcd.com.

Have you tried seeing if there is an update for you BIOS? It might be able to go over 137Gb with a newer version if there is one.

 

You will need to apply Service Pack 1 or greater to enable XP to see hard drives larger than 137 gig. You may also need to flash your BIOS to get support for large hard drives.

Looks like bios update as pacvan says.As bios itself does not detect it.

 

I had integrated SP1 as my first windows install, and had sp2 when it crashed. Also the mobo does not have a bios update, already checked. It is a shitty pc chips mobo :\. UBC is pretty awsome, I downloaded it and used some of the tools. I even got windows xp repair recovery console up by using the sp2 corp cd I have. What I did was set my 160g as slave and my 120 as master. Loaded it up that way and did a checkdisk /r and still Disk Read Error! So I have it on another computer in my house right now as a Slave, and it can read the info just fine. Im running it through some norton diskdoctor tests.

It makes no since at all that it can not load up! I have done bootfix and everything. It is fine, everything is fine . But it is not, there most be something I am overlooking. There always is.