new harddrive shows only 1.95 gig

[batmanmix]

I bought a used hard drive thats been wiped and clean and i plugged it up to the pc.i went to the bios make sure it was detected and showing the right info for the brand,space etc then i went to normal boot got into xp went to partition the hard drive using xp disk manger and it only shows 1.95 gigs of unallocated space no other partions or nothing.thanks for the help in advance


os windows xp

[glc]

What is the exact drive model? What is your computer or motherboard model?

[batmanmix]

ibm deskstar model dtla-307030


My pc mother board is MB manufacturer name: MSI MS-6577 HP name: Gamila-GL6E

here is a link to my hp Product information for my computer http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...roduct=391284#

[glc]

Hitachi bought out IBM's hard drive division several years ago. The Hitachi site is down right now for maintenance, so I can't be specific - but you probably have the drive misjumpered. The jumper settings on those drives are complicated, you probably have the capacity limit jumper set. You want to set it to 16 head operation, cable select, and no limit.

EDIT: The site is back up, what you need to look for is "2/32gb Clip". This should NOT be used.

[batmanmix]

I think i have found my drive on the website which jumper settings should i use?? http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/dtla/dtlajum.htm

[glc]

As I said - 16 head, cable select, no clip. This assumes you have an 80 wire Ultra ATA cable, and any other drive on the cable is also set to Cable Select.