What did you do wrong? You used maxblast to partition/format your drive.
Many who use maxblast report this problem. Maxblast makes entries in the MBR
that are causing problems when you use the drive under Windows XP. Partition
Magic doesn't like it much either. But you have found this out.

I suggest you reinstall the drive where it was when you installed maxblast
and then UN-install it. Use the same utility you used for the install.

Windows XP SP2 is perfectly capable of using a large drive without it being
touched by maxblast. If your bios does not see the large drive correctly you
may want to update your bios. If there is no bios update available, maybe it
is time for a new motherboard or computer.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"PK" <PK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have PC runnong XP Pro SP2. I have an older externalfirewire HD
>enclosure
> that I used as a backup HD. Recently I bought a new HD that is bigger than
> 137 Gb and for some reason I am unable to get it to work.
> I formatted it on IDE channel (NTFS) using MaxBlast4 utility. Then I
> removed
> it and put it inside the enclosure. Now, "disc management" shows 189 GB
> of
> unformatted spave. I am able to change the drive letter, but when I try to
> format it the process hangs.
> Also, when I try partition magic(PM) it shows 131 GB of "BADMBR". if I try
> to run PM while disk manager is running, pm just hangs. My primary HD is
> 250
> GB, my atapi.sys file is version 28xx and I am running SP2 so I should not
> have this problem. CompUsa website informs me that this enclosure does not
> need any drivers as xp offers native support for IEEE 1394.
> I am confused what do I do wrong?