Hard Drive NOW not showing full capacity

[DanB]

I have a Seagate 60gig and 200gig installed. the 60gig is the primary bootable. I had 2 partitions on the 200gig. A small one I left empty for when I was to install it in another computer I was building. Both hard drives worked together on both mobo's with jumpers set to CS. When I installed the 200gig on its own I deleted all partitions and reformatted and did a clean install of XP pro. The drive now won't show more than 32-33gig. I set the jumper to master used seagate tools even installed it back as extra storage like the original setup, reformatted and still can't get it to show more than 32-33gig. Any ideas would be appreciative.

 

[ag3]

From the sounds of it... "Large Disk Support" has been disabled. Why that option is still in Windows XP is beyond me. When installing the O/S, check to make sure it is enabled. Depending on the make of your MOBO, you may be able to enable it through the BIOS.

 

[DanB]

It checked that it was enabled in the bios. I put it back in the system with the 60gig drive and it still doesn't show. The bios shows it as 32gig as well. Thanks for the reply any other suggestions?

 

[rakesh_1024]

Check whether the jumper is in right place or not. At one position the drive gets limited to 32GB.

 

[DanB]

I double checked its in the right position. I hadn't changed the jumper setting when I originally deleted the partitions and reformatted the drive so that shouldn't be an issue.

 

[Jazzy]

HELP ME TO HELP YOU OUT.

Bro i need answers from you first then ill be able to solve ur problems maybe...

tell me with wat utility you formated your harddrive.. after which it only shows 33GB.. ?

 

[DanB]

When I moved the 200gig to a new system by itself first I went through the XP pro install and deleted the C: & D: partitions and there was also showing up 1-2gb of unpartitioned space. Once I had removed all partitions I installed XP. I then ran the seagate diskwizard software so the system would see all 200gig again and thats as far as I got.

 

[DanB]

Here's what system info says about the drives. The 200gig is first.

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST3200822A
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 1
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 1
Sectors/Track 63
Size 31.49 GB (33,814,126,080 bytes)
Total Cylinders 4,111
Total Sectors 66,043,215
Total Tracks 1,048,305
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 31.49 GB (33,814,093,824 bytes)
Partition Starting
Offset 32,256 bytes

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST360021A
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 2
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 55.90 GB (60,019,868,160 bytes)
Total Cylinders 7,297
Total Sectors 117,226,305
Total Tracks 1,860,735
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 9.77 GB (10,487,199,744 bytes)
Partition Starting
Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 46.13 GB (49,532,603,904 bytes)
Partition Starting
Offset 10,487,264,256 bytes

 

[Jazzy]

Try using PM 8

 

[DanB]

Why do you think I would have to use PM 8. I have PM 7 which the drive was originally partitioned with but after deleting all partitions it should be a standard operation to get things going again. What do you think could possibly be the problem?