Hard Drive Size display Error

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Magic Man

Well, I bought a new HD and installed Windows XP on it,
the HD I got was the 250 Western Digital 8MB cache one,
well the problem I am having is that windows is reading
the HD size wrong it is still 137 even though its a 250,
I have the controller card in there also and I updated
that but the 250 is my main HD, and is connected ot ym
motherboard, I can't figure out why its dispalying it
incorrectly, if somone could help me that would be great
 
I had this problem when I installed a IBM/Hitachi DeskStar unit. I phoned
up Help and was told that it was a jumper problem. Apparently, even now
Hard Drives can be configured for 16Bit operation. If you set the jumpers
so as to set the disk up as a 16Bit Driver (Whether Master or Slave), a
32Bit computer will read the drive as having approximately only half it's
true volume. This looks like what has happened to you. You may have set
the Drive up to be a Master Drive, but set it up to be a 16Bit Master Drive.
The jumper settings for a 32Bit Master Drive and a 32Bit Master Drive are
different. You should look up any manual you received with the drive, or
failing that phone the Western Digital Digital Help line. This should clear
things up.

You shouldn't have to re-install windows once this problem has been
corrected, but you will have to use a Disk Management program to make use of
the full drive, as the area of the drive that is now being recognised will
be read as unallocated space. You won't get the rest of your disk back
unless you format this part.


Hope this helps.
 
I dont think Western Digital drives differentiate jumpers
with 16bit and 32bit, I emailed Western Digial just in
case, thanks for oyur input hopefully itll lead ot an
answer somehow
 
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