P4P800 DELUXE and hardisk 160GB

[Marc Nataf]

this mainbord sees only 32GB with Magic partition
How can i do dor making the mainboard having the 160GB
is there something to change in BIOS and What?
thanks
Marc

 

[Kenchie]

I put it to you, Marc Nataf, that on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:13:39 +0200 you
did state the following;

this mainbord sees only 32GB with Magic partition
How can i do dor making the mainboard having the 160GB
is there something to change in BIOS and What?
thanks
Marc

Is the drive FAT32 or NTFS? It will need to be formatted as NTFS to
allow large partitions I believe.

HTH

 

[Paul]

this mainbord sees only 32GB with Magic partition
How can i do dor making the mainboard having the 160GB
is there something to change in BIOS and What?
thanks
Marc

Check the jumper on the disk drive. Some disk drives have
a jumper position for a "limit" or "clip" feature, that
limits the working size of the disk to 32GB.

Look for "alternate capacity jumper" in this document:

http://seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/ata/cuda7200pm.pdf

It is the fourth jumper in the picture on page 29.
It is also described in section 3.3.3.

Placing your jumper in the wrong position will cause
this problem.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Niclaas Grehling]

this mainbord sees only 32GB with Magic partition
How can i do dor making the mainboard having the 160GB
is there something to change in BIOS and What?
thanks
Marc

You should look after the jumper setting of your drive. I suppose your
drive has set the "limit to 32GB" jumper. If not, go for a new bios,
this board works with "big" drives.
Regards,
Niclaas

 

[Marc Nataf]

yes that's true and i remove the jumper
but i see always 32GB for my MAXTOR 160GB
i have not found special bios for "big drive "
what is it's number?

 

[Len]

I have this board and there is probably no need for a "brand new" bios for
you to see a large HD. It appears the latest BIOS is 1017 but you should
not need that.

The key is whether your system sees the HD at its proper size or not. If
you go into CMOS you can check the size drive that the system sees. If it
does not see the proper drive size then no SW will see the proper drive
size. Usually this is a jumper issue as other posters have said or it
"could" be that you are using a bad/wrong number of pins cable for the
drive. These larger drives require an 80 connector cable.

If CMOS sees it as the proper size then the problem is with the partition
currently on the drive.

Good Luck,
Len

 

[GMAN]

this mainbord sees only 32GB with Magic partition
How can i do dor making the mainboard having the 160GB
is there something to change in BIOS and What?
thanks
Marc

Number 1, you need to use XP with SP1 or higher to use the complete size as
one large partition and you need to also partition it as NTFS.

 

[Yell0w / Werner Waage]

You also have to update the windows registry so that it takes more than 137
gb harddrives

 

[GMAN]

You also have to update the windows registry so that it takes more than 137
gb harddrives

Not if from the start installed Windows XP w/SP1 or SP2.