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Amodedude1

01-24-2007, 04:22 PM

Hi everyone. Again, I would like to say how great of a site it is.

Anyway on to my problem. I have a Seagate st32008a hard drive I bought back in 2004. It's been working fine until I decided to re install windows Xp. After I reinstalled, my system shows the hard drive as 32gb (33gb in the BIOS) as opposed to the full 200gb. Now before you crack down on me, I read the thread on hard drive capacity. Nothing in their helped. Btw, I am 120% sure that my jumpers are not limiting the drive to 32Gb ( it's an ultra ata drive).

Please someone help! I cannot live with a 32GB hard drive!

My motherboard is a DFI NF4 Lanparty. It's almost brand new so I'm sure it can't be the BIOS. Besides, it worked before at full capacity.

Also, I have formatted in all the allowed formats (e.g. - Fat32 and NTFC) with consistent upsetting results. The zero fill (FULL) I did was also of not help at all. :(

Any Ideas At ALL would help!!!

glc

01-24-2007, 04:48 PM

At this point, I think I'd run SeaTools on the disk and hope it comes up defective - and get a warranty replacement. You may want to call 1-800-SEAGATE and talk to a tech.

Kareeser

01-24-2007, 10:01 PM

Take a look at Disk Management. Do you see an unformatted, unpartitioned section beside your allocated 32 gb system drive?

glc

01-25-2007, 08:39 AM

Amodedude1

01-25-2007, 01:50 PM

I just reviewed your previous thread.

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=160845

Borrow another hard drive - larger than 137gb. Stick it in there just to see what the bios says. If it shows as 32gb, your bios is bad, call DFI. If it shows full capacity, call Seagate, your drive is bad.

NO, I use a 320 gig westerndigital hard drive on that system and I put it in the same spot as this defective one. However, that one shows up just fine :rolleyes:.

Take a look at Disk Management. Do you see an unformatted, unpartitioned section beside your allocated 32 gb system drive? Nope, nothing like that, the only thing it shows is the 32gigs.

At this point I am going to call segate and see what they say. My only worry is that the drive is 2004 and is four years old! I doubt they will honor any warrenty.

LeftyAce

01-25-2007, 03:28 PM

The seagate I just bought has a 5 year warranty, but I'm not sure how long they've been doing that. I would certainly give them a call.

glc

01-26-2007, 01:33 AM

If you use the online RMA, you put the serial number of the drive in and it tells you when the warranty expires.