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10-12-2005, 12:08 PM
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Problem with capacity of a 120gb seagate
When I powered on my computer earlier on today the four drives I had partitioned on my 120gb Seagate barracuda failed to appear and instead all that did appear was 1 32gb drive. Since then I have reset the machine, tried the harddrive on differnt ide positions and jumper settings and the bios is still reporting it as only being 32gb. All the other (1 200gb sata & 1 200gb ide) drives are working fine and the bios obviously supports sizea up to and above 120gb, any suggestions ?
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10-12-2005, 01:14 PM
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Check and make sure the cylinder limitation jumper isn't set. This will make it appear as only 32gb. You may be looking at the jumper block upside down - if you are and use Master/Single, that's really the 32gb limit.
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10-12-2005, 02:24 PM
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Ive made sure that the jumper isnt set to limit it to 32gb, in fact Ive tried the jumper in all the positions and still no joy. I downloaded and booted into seagates Seatools and it shows the hard drive as 120gb and shows all the partitions on it. However I still cant get the bios or winxp pro to recognise it as 120gb.
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10-12-2005, 03:01 PM
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Ive updated the bios to the most recent version and still no joy.
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10-12-2005, 06:41 PM
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If there's another drive on the same IDE cable, temporarily disconnect it for a test.
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10-12-2005, 09:06 PM
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I tried that as well as replacing the ide cable with one I was sure was udma. I did however get it working in the end. Firstly I installed it in an external HD caddy i had and verified that it was all kosher (as Seatools had reported), I then changed the jumper on the master hard drive from Cable select to master and the jumper on the wonky seagate from slave to cable select, rebooted and voila, back to normal.
Thank you for your assistance. |
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