Troubles with HDD driver installation

[KingAustin]

I recently bought the Maxtor 7L300S0 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144186 and as you can see, it's OEM. I went to maxtor.com and got the new drivers, but when I go to install them, windows doesnt use them over the ones they use, which is dated 7/1/2001. When I go to format the HD, it says the max disc space is 131.069GB, but it's a 300GB drive. My guess is it's the drivers messing with it, but if not, Maxtor sucks.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Nitestick]

have you got service pack 2? you should be able to uninstall the driver and direct windows to the one you wish to use, i haven't tried for a disk drive though. try some third party partitioning/formatting software

 

[BASSMASTER]

Yae the 131GB thing is a Windows XP issue, you need at least service pack 1. How big does the drive show in the disk manangement console?

 

[t3hn4t3]

Mmk. If this is a secondary drive, go to this website, and it'll tell you how to set it up so you can format over 131gb:

http://www.nthelp.com/nt6/big_disk_limitations_in_xp.htm

 

[KingAustin]

I cant install SP1 because the same error always comes up "the file atapi.sys is open or being used by another program". So what should I do?

 

[t3hn4t3]

Can you do what I sent you without installing SP1?

 

[KingAustin]

Can you do what I sent you without installing SP1?

I might, but these words are scaring me "SPECIAL NOTE: If your bios doesn't support 48bit LBA or if you aren't running at least SP1 level XP, you will hose the install by doing this. "