- NTFS formatted 2nd hard drive wrong
- Posted by Furm on April 13th, 2006
I installed a 2nd 80Gb drive into my old computer and NTFS will only format
it as a 32Gb drive my C drive is a 40Gb and is formated ok my os is XP Pro
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
Furm wrote:
You must have selected fat32 as XP only allows up to 32gig
delete it and start over and be sure to use NTFS
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"philo" wrote:
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
Furm wrote:
first off, does the bios see the drive as 80 gigs?
what does disk management show?
is there a 32 gig partition and then approx 50 gigs of free space
you may have to delete everything and then recreate as one (NTFS) partition
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"philo" wrote:
think
it does not see anything over 40Gb so what can I do to get it to see the 80Gb
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
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if your bios does not see the whole drive
you need to see if there is an updated bios
or else get a PCI controller
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"philo" wrote:
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
Furm wrote:
see this link for what that is
(the link is given merely as an example)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati....asp?CatId=508
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"philo" wrote:
- Posted by Nepatsfan on April 14th, 2006
6B7DCFCE-1514-4ACF-94E5-3E984ED5620D@microsoft.com,
Furm <Furm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Check the jumpers on your hard drive. Some drives can be
configured to have a limit of 32 GB.
Good luck
Nepatsfan
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
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actually i just though of two things (it's probably the first) :
1) since your main drive is 40 gigs and was detected OK...
it may not be a bios limitation. Look carefully at the jumperes on your
drive...as it *might* have been set for a machine with a bios limit.
there may be a jumper limiting the capactiy of the drive to 32 gigs.
if so, simply remove that jumper
2) in XP (and many other OS's) the 2nd HD does *not* depend on a BIOS
call. so if it's not a case of the drive beinging jumpered for 32gigs...
go back into the bios and for that drive specify "none".
The bios call will not be used and the OS should see the full drive capacity
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"Nepatsfan" wrote:
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
Furm wrote:
Excellent suggestion
he was NOT referring to the master/slave/cs jumper...
some HD's have a BIOS limitation jumper which needs to be removed
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"philo" wrote:
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
Furm wrote:
remove CD
- Posted by Nepatsfan on April 14th, 2006
E95C983A-3960-4564-A787-62C2106FA95D@microsoft.com,
Furm <Furm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
According to the documentation available from Samsung, when you
configure that drive as a slave you remove all the jumpers.
Take a look here:
Samsung Hard Drive Installation Guide
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...PATA_EU_r3.pdf
Good luck
Nepatsfan
- Posted by philo on April 14th, 2006
Nepatsfan wrote:
yep..if he's got a slave jumper in it...
then it's got the 32gig bios limit all right
- Posted by Furm on April 14th, 2006
"philo" wrote:
- Posted by philo on April 15th, 2006
you are welcome...
just note that Nepatsfan came up with the suggestion before I did
- Posted by Furm on April 15th, 2006
"Nepatsfan" wrote:
