10GB or 2GB????

[ThickChick]

Calling all intelligent computer wizzards!

Here's another of my little problems for someone to hopefully solve!

Having just upgraded the kids PC to one of better storage capacity etc, we have decided to sell the hard drive to the original PC.

It is a Fujitsu MPF3102AT which, according to the manufacturers label, is supposed to be a 10.24GB internal IDE hard drive.

The problem is, when I piggybacked it onto my PC to format the drive ready for sale, I noticed it says it is only a 1.99GB.

I am puzzled by this. It stated on the specs when I bought it that it was a 10GB and the labelling on the hard drive says 10GB so how come it only tells me it is a 1.99GB when I look into the properties of it? :confused:

I have checked the jumper settings and I have it set to slave as per diagram instructions and when it was in the kids PC I had it set to master but it still only said it was a 1.99GB on there as well.

If anyone could help me with this before I sell it in good faith as a 10GB I would greatly appreciate it.

Cheers

ThickChick.

[Panama Red]

Check it in Disk Management of an XP machine and see if there's more to it's capacity that isn't being shown. Unallocated space will not show up in My Computer. Right click on My Computer and select Manage.

[TwoRails]

It is indeed a 10GB:

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/storage/hdd/eol/dhdd/mpf3xxat-catalog.html

What kind of system did you "piggyback" it on? If it's pretty old, it may only recognize a small amount. Or it could have somehow been incorrectly formatted. Either way, I'd follow Panama Red's suggestion and put it in an XP system to see what comes up.

PS: how did you "piggyback" it??

[Joeberg]

What version of Windows is on the computer you tried to piggyback the drive to?

If It's an older version of windows, NTFS partitions will not show...

You could probably zero fill the drive anyway to erase all the data from the drive and subsequently any leftover partitions that may not be shown in Windows...

[ThickChick]

Check it in Disk Management of an XP machine and see if there's more to it's capacity that isn't being shown. Unallocated space will not show up in My Computer. Right click on My Computer and select Manage.
Thanks Panama.

Problem solved. I never thought to do that. :rolleyes: I should have though considering I had a similar problem recently. Anyway, the rest of the hard drive had 8GB of unallocated space.
Partition Magic has solved that problem so now the drive is sorted and reading at it's correct size.
LOL, must have been using it with 1.99GB since I bought the PC 6 years ago!



What kind of system did you "piggyback" it on?
I piggybacked the drive onto a windows XP operating system. Just never thought to check the disc management. :o



PS: how did you "piggyback" it??
Forgive the basic terms here but I have no idea what all the correct names for the leads and cables are but I piggybacked the hard drive by attaching the spare power lead and and ribbon leads that came off the existing hard drive on my pc to the 10GB drive (which I set to slave at the jumper).


Thanks once more for all the help. This site is brilliant. It's just become my new bible!:)

Cheers all

ThickChick.

[TwoRails]

Glad it worked out OK for you, ThickChick! Thanks for posting back with the "fix" :)