DonLogan <navajo@neonfeather.com> wrote

You can get it for a hell of a lot less than that.

No it isnt, you can move it to what replaces that.

Not a good idea, you should have used the XP install CD to do that.

You should have done that first, maybe you did.

Mine doesnt, so its not just some quirk of HD Tune unless thats system specific.

Which version of XP did you install ? You should be using SP2.
Safest to slipstream that onto the install CD if it doesnt have SP2 included.

Thats possible, but unlikely.

I'd do another clean install of XP with SP2 slipsteamed to eliminate
the possibility that its something to do with the seagate utes.

And try
http://www.48bitlba.com/hdinfo.htm
and see what it says about 48bit LBA support.

If that doesnt fix it, I'd check the contents of the first physical sector
of the drive to see what the media type is actually set to before
writing anything much to the drive, and see what its set to after
the complaint to see if it is actually getting changed. And if the
drive is wrapping at the 137G point, that should damage a lot
more than just the media byte in that first physical sector too.