Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 I have tried everything on my hard drive that I can think of. The problem is it is only showing that it is a 32GB hard drive when its really a 60GB. I have tried everything using fdisk and disk management. Anyone know how I can get the extra space to be detected. All i am trying to do is make the primary partition to be the maxim disk space. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Sounds like BIOS problem or a Jumper Settting on your drive. Need some details about the Drive in question and your system. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 Well, I think what may be the problem is that I had gotten it to detect the 60GB in FAT32, then I went to install xp and I believe i restarted during the format for NFTS. I eventually did a reinstall of xp again and it installed fine, but during boot it showed 2 boot options, one for XP and another for what I believe to have said something about another os but it wasnt able to boot. I know this isnt the best description, but I am not the most computer savy person. Also, with fdsik after I delete all partitions, it still shows that there is one active, but there is no information about the active "drive" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 You didn't even answer either of my questions. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 You didn't even answer either of my questions. Baracuda 60GB I am running xp on my other Hard Drive AMD 1900+ 1.61 GHz 512 MB Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 Here is what it looks life from comp manage Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptiPlex Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 All modern hard drives have a 32GB barrier for Windows 95 compatibility. Move yer jumper, refer to your documentation Err, ignore you got it to recognize it as 60GB NM... :x :x :x :x Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 All modern hard drives have a 32GB barrier for Windows 95 compatibility.Move yer jumper, refer to your documentation Err, ignore you got it to recognize it as 60GB NM... :x :x :x :x No i didnt get it too, its recognizing as 31. Its Drive F Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Read the manual or whatever piece of information came with your Seagate drive. there is a jumper that will set it to 32GB. Also I recommend updating your BIOS. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpugeniusmv Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 yes, it's a jumper setting. i've run into that on all of the seagate drives i've worked on recently. there's like 16 jumper combinations! geez! i just need master/slave/cs! lol Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 I dont think its a jumper problem. Its an old drive that I bought a year ago, so I dont have the documentation. Ive tried many jumper settings, but its still not working. I got it to work one time but i had to delete it cause of an error, so its not really a jumper issue. oh well, thx for the help Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntBug Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 can you format it? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remote Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 yea, but its still just recognizing the 32GB. Im checking seagate site and trying their software, but nothing has worked so far from them. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1924949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpugeniusmv Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 is there a sticker on the back of the drive with possible jumper settings? if so, could you post a picture of it? i dealt with a drive that had a jumper setting that would do this, and it was documented on the back of the drive...although it was a bit greek, if you know what i mean ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1925218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vector Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 There's nothing wrong with your HD. Windows formatting tools can't create FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB. You need to either use a third party partitioning program or format it to NTFS. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/154521-hard-drive-not-giving-me-its-full-capacity/#findComment-1925316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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