Hdd Problems (1 Viewer)

[r0wlzi]

I currently installed a 120GB Samsung HDD and made it slave to my 80GB Seagate HDD. I then transferred everything over, formatted 80GB installed windows on my 120GB made it promary and all of a sudden my 80GBHDD is reading as a 32GB.

My pins are set u correctly, the IDE positioning is all correct, anyone else have the same problem.

The BIOS seems set correctly, so I dont know what is going on, I need that space for games and nude women.

I did post this in the other IT forum, my bad.

 

[sunny]

Did you format to FAT32 in WinXP or 2000?

 

[jm1234567890]

Yeah, you need to format into NTFS to support such large partitions

 

[pc_wizz]

yup ... wat jm said ...

its harsh how we need to change to ntfs ... cause u cant change back ... not that i want to or anything ...

 

[sunny]

Yeah, you need to format into NTFS to support such large partitions

This is only a problem in the formatting program of Win2k and XP. FAT32 itself supports upto 2TB.

Either change to NTFS or format it to FAT32 outside of Windows.

 

[r0wlzi]

Arrrgghhhh I thought sd much, thsnkd guys I'll give it a shot.

 

[r0wlzii]

Alrighty, seems as though my problem continues. How would I format outside of windows, dont call me dumb for asking that.

Boot from OS CD and go to Manual Repair and go from there?

Still having the problem guys any solutions and other occurences like this one.

 

[redslert]

yes you will have to boot from the XP CD

hmm from my memory you should be selecting installing XP again so that it allows you to format a drive which you select, just don't be stupid and overwrite your good windows installation

after format don't let it copy over the files required for installation and just restart

if that fails i have 2 bootable Partition Magic floppy disks you can use to format your harddrives, i use these all the time with new computers, they are old but at least they work!

 

[eviltama]

to format(and partition) your drives you can use the manufacturers disk manager. Its the safest way and the disk manager can check for disk errors and such while you're at it.

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

yep the 32 gig is one of those 'limits' so to speak.. try flashing BIOS maybe?

 

[sunny]

yep the 32 gig is one of those 'limits' so to speak.. try flashing BIOS maybe?

This is only a problem in the formatting program of Win2k and XP. FAT32 itself supports upto 2TB.

Either change to NTFS or format it to FAT32 outside of Windows.

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[r0wlzii]

OK I have flashed and updated the BIOS to its current state.

It is in NTFS, not FAT32. It is my slave why would I install Windows onto my slave?

 

[sunny]

It is my slave why would I install Windows onto my slave?

You wouldn't...

 

[redslert]

although it's not something that is impossible, but it is not a wise idea to be installing anything that is constantly required in a slave drive

 

[r0wlzii]

although it's not something that is impossible, but it is not a wise idea to be installing anything that is constantly required in a slave drive

Thats what Im saying, someone above recommended it, I realise they probably didnt read it was my slave drive that was defunct for now.

Heaps of my friends somehow managed to install windows on to both of their HDD's so I had to fix some of their computers.