Vista and Noseeum Seagate 300GB Drive

[DaShard]

Why can't I get a brand new - after the Vista Biz. upgrade - Seagate 300GB
Barracuda to be seen?

At one point Vista saw the limit(ed) 127GB but after a while it blew up on
me (yes I had a backup of the data thanks!)

So, never having used the Seagate Disk manager for about 20 years I've put
that disk in so many times and tried to have Vista see the 300GB drive - to
no avail. Now I can't even get Vista to initialize the drive at all.

I've partitioned under Seagate drive tools, I've put a signature ob the disk
I've tried Windows c:>diskpart but Vista doesn't want to recognize the 300GB

My BIOS sees it as a 300GB OK. enabling or disabling "plug and play O/S' in
the BIOS makes no difference.

Can anyone help please? Has anyone else tried installing a large drive after
their Vista install? was it a success?

Thanks.

 

[Brandon A DeBoard]

Do you have the model number of the drive? I show that Seagate's Barracuda
series drives only come in 250gb, 400gb, 500gb, and 750gb. You shouldn't be
having any issues with Vista recognizing the drive size, however, I've seen
similar issues arise before. If you can get the model number of the drive I
may be able to help you further. =)

 

[DaShard]

From Device manager in Vista it's a: ST3300622A - does that sound correct? I
can take it our of my 'puter and look if that's not it.

I got a 'deal' on it from CompUSA a couple of weeks ago!

 

[Brandon A DeBoard]

That was the model number I was looking for. Is the drive being used as a
slave or master? If it's being used as a slave does windows recognize the
drive? (I recall you stating that windows no longer recognizes that the
drive exists)

 

[DaShard]

I presently have it as a Master (Cable Select) on IDE Channel 2 off the
MoBo.

When Vista did recognize it I have a feeling it might have been a Master on
a Promise Ultra133 TX2 card. I know I had to dicker around with channels and
cables and settings so that I could get the darn CD to boot trying to make
Vista see the 300GB. - cables weren't long enough!

It could have been a slave on channel 2 when Vista saw the 127 but I'm not
sure.

If I know me it would have been a Master but I can't quite remember at this
point. Between that and my nVidia card I'm about hardware fried these last
couple of weeks!

 

[Brandon A DeBoard]

Scenario 1

If you currently have it connected as a cable select master drive, I can
only assume that you have already installed vista on the drive and are able
to boot from it to the desktop. My recommendation, check the file system, I
know some drives in the past that were utilizing the FAT32 file system had
some issues with drive size in Windows, make sure that you are using the
NTFS file system first and foremost (I highly recommend it), and secondly
use the jumpers on your hard drives. Designate one as a master and your
other drive(s) as slaves.

Scenario 2

If you have the drive setup on cable select as a master drive but you cannot
boot to the desktop, change the jumper settings as I said before and boot
from the Vista disc, try the repair tool, if that doesn't help you boot to
the desktop then reinstalling Vista and let me know if that fixes the issue.

 

[DaShard]

This Seagate 300GB is just a 'Spare' Master drive on Channel 2 - which also
has an 80GB HD slave (CS)

I have Vista on a Master 80GB (jumped) and a Slave 80GB (jumped) both on
Channel 1

Maybe I will put the jumpers back on and see if that was the key.....

Thanks for helping. I appreciate that.

 

[Brandon A DeBoard]

No problem at all. Let me know if that helps, sometimes it can be something
as simple as that. =)