Maxtor 160gig hard drive in XP

Posted: 07-21-2003, 05:29 PM

Paul Hepburn

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I am trying to install the new Maxtor 160gig hard drive
on my AMD-K6 3D Processor 501MHZ 320MB of Ram with
Windows XP Professional version 2020 service pack 1 and I
am getting the following message (one of the file drivers
installed for the devise is invalid). If some one could
please help me out as I have been trying to fix this for
a few days now. Error code 28

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Alex Sidline

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Maxtor 160gig hard drive in XP

Posted: 07-21-2003, 06:18 PM

>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to install the new Maxtor 160gig hard drive
>on my AMD-K6 3D Processor 501MHZ 320MB of Ram with
>Windows XP Professional version 2020 service pack 1 and I
>am getting the following message (one of the file drivers
>installed for the devise is invalid). If some one could
>please help me out as I have been trying to fix this for
>a few days now. Error code 28
>.
>

Just a guess. I have a MAXTOR 120 GB and it installed
OK. Somewhere I recall that the maximum size is 132GB. It
may be in your MAXTOR documents. Check that and possibly
their web page.

R. C. White

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Re: Maxtor 160gig hard drive in XP

Posted: 07-21-2003, 06:24 PM

Hi, Paul.

Most likely you need to update your BIOS for "big drives" - 48-bit
addressing - for any drive larger than about 137 GB. See these two
references to learn about this development:

http://www.maxtor.com/en/technologies/big_drives/

Live Large with Big Drives
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,696755,00.asp

For more, just ask Google about "big drives".

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

"Paul Hepburn" <phepburn@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> I am trying to install the new Maxtor 160gig hard drive
> on my AMD-K6 3D Processor 501MHZ 320MB of Ram with
> Windows XP Professional version 2020 service pack 1 and I
> am getting the following message (one of the file drivers
> installed for the devise is invalid). If some one could
> please help me out as I have been trying to fix this for
> a few days now. Error code 28

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