Removing 32GB limit jumper

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nutso fasst

Seagate U6, 40GB drive jumpered to 32GB due to BIOS limitation. BIOS has
been updated to support larger capacities. Can jumper now be removed without
problem?

It's a boot drive, NTFS, 2 partitions.

thx,
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Previously nutso fasst said:
Seagate U6, 40GB drive jumpered to 32GB due to BIOS limitation. BIOS has
been updated to support larger capacities. Can jumper now be removed without
problem?
Click to expand...
It's a boot drive, NTFS, 2 partitions.
Click to expand...

That should work. However do not expect to get more capacity. For that
you need to enlarge the partitioning. If it fails to see the disk,
just put in the jumper again.

Arno
 
nutso fasst said:
Seagate U6, 40GB drive jumpered to 32GB due to BIOS
limitation. BIOS has been updated to support larger
capacities. Can jumper now be removed without problem?
Click to expand...
It's a boot drive, NTFS, 2 partitions.
Click to expand...

You cant JUST do that and see the full size.

You'd normally need to at least expand the partition into
the full space using something like Acronis Disk Director
Suite etc if you want to keep the data thats on that drive.
 
Thanks to Arno and Rod for replying. I removed the jumper and the additional
space was recognized as free space. (I didn't expect the space to be
miraculously partitioned and formatted, was just concerned that the opsys
might be confused and start writing logs in the wrong place.)

Interesting side effect of the BIOS upgrade: I began seeing disk errors in
the event log - that the device did not respond within the timeout ... has
old or out-of-date-firmware ... has a bad block. I discovered IDE block
transfer mode was disabled by default in the motherboard BIOS. When I
enabled block transfer the errors stopped.

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