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From: Rod Speed on 12 Jun 2010 03:02
Lynn McGuire wrote:

>> I tried to mount drive but it can't see this SATA inside a external
>> USB case. Is there a driver I need to install in order to see it?

> Does this 2 TB hard drive have the new 4K sectors ?

> If so, you may need to jumper the hard drive:

That cant be the problem given that the external drive works fine on Vista systems.

> http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/03/the-digital-den/4k-sector-hard-drive-primer/
> http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/WhitePapers/ENG/2579-771430.pdf


From: Lynn McGuire on 13 Jun 2010 00:00
> > Does this 2 TB hard drive have the new 4K sectors ?
> >
> I don't know. I got it late last year. I formatted it as NTFS and used
> it on a Vista laptop until I need to mount it on my other Win XP
> desktop.

I would repartition the external drive and reformat on the XP system.

Lynn



From: Rod Speed on 13 Jun 2010 13:54
Lynn McGuire wrote:

>>> Does this 2 TB hard drive have the new 4K sectors ?

>> I don't know. I got it late last year. I formatted it as NTFS and used it on a Vista laptop until I need to mount it
>> on my other Win XP desktop.

> I would repartition the external drive and reformat on the XP system.

The drive isnt even visible on an XP system, so it cant be repartitioned and reformatted.


From: Lynn McGuire on 14 Jun 2010 13:21
>> Does this 2 TB hard drive have the new 4K sectors ?
>
>> If so, you may need to jumper the hard drive:
>
> That cant be the problem given that the external drive works fine on Vista systems.

It is my understanding that Win 7 and Vista understand the new 4K
sector hard drives. XP does not but the drives are "supposed" to
have a compatibility mode. The compatibility mode did not work for
me on a Windows 2003 server pc for a 1.5 TB internal hard drive.

Lynn
From: Rod Speed on 14 Jun 2010 14:29
Lynn McGuire wrote:

>>> Does this 2 TB hard drive have the new 4K sectors ?

>>> If so, you may need to jumper the hard drive:

>> That cant be the problem given that the external drive works fine on Vista systems.

> It is my understanding that Win 7 and Vista understand the new 4K
> sector hard drives. XP does not but the drives are "supposed" to
> have a compatibility mode. The compatibility mode did not work for
> me on a Windows 2003 server pc for a 1.5 TB internal hard drive.

Yes, but EXTERNAL USB drives dont have that problem.

In their case what matters is the bridge in the drive, and clearly
that can handle the 2TB drive because it works with Vista.


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