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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
it as a 32Gb drive my C drive is a 40Gb and is formated ok my os is XP Pro
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philo
Furm said: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
You must have selected fat32 as XP only allows up to 32gig
delete it and start over and be sure to use NTFS
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Guest
philo said:You must have selected fat32 as XP only allows up to 32gig
delete it and start over and be sure to use NTFS
no I formatted it as NTFS have done it twice and get the same thing
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philo
Furm said:
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
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Guest
no it only shows 32 Gb and no free space no new bios for my old computer Iphilo said: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
think
it does not see anything over 40Gb so what can I do to get it to see the 80Gb
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philo
no it only shows 32 Gb and no free space no new bios for my old computer I
think
it does not see anything over 40Gb so what can I do to get it to see the 80Gb
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
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Guest
philo said: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
computersorry what is a pCI controller have checked there is no new bios updates for my
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philo
Furm said::
computer
see this link for what that is
(the link is given merely as an example)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=508
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Guest
philo said:see this link for what that is
(the link is given merely as an example)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=508
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Nepatsfan
(e-mail address removed),
Check the jumpers on your hard drive. Some drives can be
configured to have a limit of 32 GB.
Good luck
Nepatsfan
Furm said: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
Check the jumpers on your hard drive. Some drives can be
configured to have a limit of 32 GB.
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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philo
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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
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
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Guest
Nepatsfan said:(e-mail address removed),
Check the jumpers on your hard drive. Some drives can be
configured to have a limit of 32 GB.
Good luck
Nepatsfan
I have the jumper on S for slave but still can only get 32Gb not 80Gb
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philo
Furm said:
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
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Guest
philo said: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
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philo
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Nepatsfan
(e-mail address removed),
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/content/UM/200510/20051010164743718_3.5_PATA_EU_r3.pdf
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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/content/UM/200510/20051010164743718_3.5_PATA_EU_r3.pdf
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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philo
Nepatsfan said:(e-mail address removed),
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/content/UM/200510/20051010164743718_3.5_PATA_EU_r3.pdf
yep..if he's got a slave jumper in it...
then it's got the 32gig bios limit all right
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Guest
philo said:https://www.mind.ca/helpfiles/hwhddsam016/hard_drive.htm
remove CD
Thanks removed the pin from the slave setting and left it out then showed there was 58Gb space reformatted the drive as an 80Gb thanks
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philo
you are welcome...
just note that Nepatsfan came up with the suggestion before I did
just note that Nepatsfan came up with the suggestion before I did
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Guest
Nepatsfan said:(e-mail address removed),
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/content/UM/200510/20051010164743718_3.5_PATA_EU_r3.pdf
Good luck
Nepatsfan
thanks to you both all working great
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