Hard drive question... HELP!

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Aaron Webb

Ok, I have 2 drives, C and D. 1st drive, C, is 60GB. XP
Pro SP1 sees this drive fine and dandy. The 2nd drive, D,
is a 20GB drive. XP only sees this as a 2GB drive. I've
fdisked the drive and set the partition to the full
amount, but XP refuses to see more than 2GB. I've run
Partition Magic to resize the partition, but XP again
resets it to 2GB and will not see the remaining 18GB. Why
is this happening?

Thanks,
Aaron
 
Ok, I have 2 drives, C and D. 1st drive, C, is 60GB. XP
Pro SP1 sees this drive fine and dandy. The 2nd drive, D,
is a 20GB drive. XP only sees this as a 2GB drive. I've
fdisked the drive and set the partition to the full
amount, but XP refuses to see more than 2GB. I've run
Partition Magic to resize the partition, but XP again
resets it to 2GB and will not see the remaining 18GB. Why
is this happening?
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In the hardware section of Control Panel, does it show the correct make of
hard drive for both of them? Try removing the entry belonging to the one
being funny, and letting Windows re-detect it.
 
Thanks for the reply Jason.

I tried that from the start and it still comes up with the
same drive.

Aaron
 
True, but it IS formatted as FAT32. I even went so far as
to NOT put a partition on the drive and let XP do that,
but again, it only sees it as a 2GB drive. :/
 
Hi Aaron,
If you could do this please;

Start > Run type or copy&paste this
msinfo32 /category ComponentsStorageDisks click on OK

then in the System Information window menu
Edit > Select All then Edit> Copy
and then reply to this msg and paste into the reply, this will give
more info on the disk setup, and we may see what the problem is.
 
Here you go. It's the top drive were talking about here;

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model IC35L020AVER07-0
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 1.97 GB (2,113,929,216 bytes)
Total Cylinders 1,024
Total Sectors 4,128,768
Total Tracks 65,536
Tracks/Cylinder 64
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 1.97 GB (2,113,929,216 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 0 bytes

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model WDC WD600BB-75CAA0
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 55.87 GB (59,995,192,320 bytes)
Total Cylinders 7,294
Total Sectors 117,178,110
Total Tracks 1,859,970
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 29.29 GB (31,453,438,464 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 15.01 GB (16,113,323,520 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 31,453,470,720 bytes
 
Theres 2 possible reasons why the disk is only 2GB, firstly backup anything
on the 2GB drive and delete the partition, then

Incorrect BIOS settings
Restart the computer go into your BIOS

Go into Standard CMOS settings
hopefully you will, have among other stuff

IDE Primary Master WDC WD600BB-75CAA0
IDE Primary Slave IC35L020AVER07-0
etc..

select IDE Primary Slave, or the one that has IC35L020AVER07-0 beside it,
make sure its set on Auto, if not set to Auto & save BIOS settings then
start up windows and check to see if you have full capacity
if its set to Auto then a more likley cause is incorrect jumper settings on
the actual hard drive unit

think the hard drive is a 20GB Deskstar 60GXP Model IC35L020AVER07-0, then
go here
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/d60gxp/d60gxpjum.htm

make sure you have the correct jumper settings for the hard drive
from the looks of it, if the hard drive is a Slave there should only be 2
jumpers, 1 jumper across pins A & B and the other across pins C & D, and the
current jumper settings is most likly set up for Capacity clip to 2GB/32GB,
which limit the drive to only 2GB. Set the jumpers as shown in Jumper
settings > 16 Logical Head > Device 1 (slave), start up windows and you
should have the full capacity of that disk.

Let us know how you get on.
 
You hit the nail on the head, it was a jumper issue. I've
had this drive now for a year and it has ALWAYS seen as a
20GB drive. With XP, it only saw 2GB. That's because I
only had one jumper on the disk set to BD, limiting the
disk to 2GB. This truly stumped the tech at Hitachi who
had no idea why everything else could see it as 20 when it
was set to be 2. Anyway, put the jumpers to AB CD and all
is well. Thanks for the effort and help!!

Aaron
 
hi there ppl.

i am currently facing a problem like that

i have a maxtor 120GB hdd which ive been using for about 8 months, partitioned into 2 drives

so last week i decided to do a clean format of c: which has XP installed

after the format......it only reads 32GB.
ive tried ntfs, fat32, low-level formats, everything i could......but to no avail

what should i do next? :(
 
You reformatted the partition as fat32 during the install. Changing it to
NTFS, after the fact, is NOT going to increase the size of the partition.

You need Partition Magic to solve the problem!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
the thing is i tried to use partition magic already...but it doesnt detect the 'hidden' hdd space. just 32gb

when i reformat it using maxtor's maxblast 3...it does detect the full 120gb when i format

once loading XP...it forces me to format the partition again to 32gb
 
Then your old computer bios is not meant for the larger hard drives. That is
why the drive manufacturers came out with drive "overlay" utilities.
Unfortunately, WinXP does not really get along well with these utilities!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

[email protected] said:
the thing is i tried to use partition magic already...but it doesnt detect
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the 'hidden' hdd space. just 32gb.
 
Try Viagra, it is supposed to fix things that used to work
fine.



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