160 Gig HD formatted at 127Gig

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Ken,

The 200GB drive is a SATA, the 160GB drive is an IDE. When I started
"playing" with this beast I was trying to recover the missing disc space
using the XP CD. I disconnected the SATA drive, connected the IDE drive as a
primary master and booted from the CD, which then reported a drive of 127Gb
with one partition and would I like to install Windows to this partition.
Deleting this partition and recreating it still resulted in 127 GB.
I then reconected the SATA drive, connected the IDE as a slave(tried master
also) on the Primary, juggled the boot order around so it booted from the
SATA. It then took an age to boot and when Windows eventually started it
displayed the Samsung drive icon with a red bar through (I think) saying
that the drive was unknown. I then fitted a jumper which limited the drive
to 32 GB, it still took an age to boot, but this time the new hardware found
box popped up saying it had found the Samsung. The motherboard is an Asustek
KV8-rev.2.00 and the BIOS is AmericanMegaTrends 1012.003 dated 12 Sept.
2005.

HTH

Mike H
 
Mike said:
The 200GB drive is a SATA, the 160GB drive is an IDE. When I started
"playing" with this beast I was trying to recover the missing disc
space using the XP CD. I disconnected the SATA drive, connected the
IDE drive as a primary master and booted from the CD, which then
reported a drive of 127Gb with one partition and would I like to
install Windows to this partition. Deleting this partition and
recreating it still resulted in 127 GB. I then reconected the SATA drive,
connected the IDE as a slave(tried
master also) on the Primary, juggled the boot order around so it
booted from the SATA. It then took an age to boot and when Windows
eventually started it displayed the Samsung drive icon with a red
bar through (I think) saying that the drive was unknown. I then
fitted a jumper which limited the drive to 32 GB, it still took an
age to boot, but this time the new hardware found box popped up
saying it had found the Samsung. The motherboard is an Asustek
KV8-rev.2.00 and the BIOS is AmericanMegaTrends 1012.003 dated 12
Sept. 2005.
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I'm not a hardware expert and don't know enough about this, but perhaps your
motherboard/BIOS supports 48-bit LBA for SATA drives but not IDE. Hopefully
somebody who understands these issues better than I do will jump in here.
 
I'm not a hardware expert and don't know enough about this, but perhaps
your motherboard/BIOS supports 48-bit LBA for SATA drives but not IDE.
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Ken,

I'm coming around to that way of thinking ;-(
Many thanks anyway for all your input.

Best regards
Mike H
 
Mike said:
Ken,

I'm coming around to that way of thinking ;-(
Many thanks anyway for all your input.
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You're welcome. Good luck, and I hope someone here can help more than I
could.
 
I have had other drives the same way and the best way is to use a program to
write zero to the drive. Or use the disk from drive manufact to run disk
utilities and change that way. One very old but good program was WIPE.
 
If you need I can send you a copy of the old WIPE for floppy. You just have
to boot using and Win 98 floppy then put in the WIPE disk and type wipe 0 or
wipe 1. but make sure that only the drive you want to wipe is connected.
after you can use your regular methods of reformatting and partitioning the
drive.
 
rhuds13 said:
If you need I can send you a copy of the old WIPE for floppy. You just
have
to boot using and Win 98 floppy then put in the WIPE disk and type wipe 0
or
wipe 1. but make sure that only the drive you want to wipe is connected.
after you can use your regular methods of reformatting and partitioning
the
drive.
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Rhuds,

The drive has already been formatted in NTFS and the owner has already tried
similiar utilities but being FAT they csnt find the hard drive. WIPE sounds
interesting though, I wouldn't mind a copy.

Many t hanks

Mike H
 
If you own Ghost - GDISK can do the same thing.
Sadly, no

Many thanks Shenan

Regards

Mike H
 
A month or so back my brother used the Seagate disk to format his new drive
and set it in utilities to only read his drive about half size. He could not
get it to change back once format was done. He brought it to me and i used
the wipe and you really only need to let it run for about 2 or 3 min. then we
used the seagate disk again and it is now full 160 gigs. the wipe was made
back when the largest drives were a couple of gigs but it still works.
 
Just found the other program on my saved files but have not used it yet. Was
from a cousin who uses it often. called drivescruber.
 
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