Samsung HDD 32Gb Detection problem

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Gameface

Hi,
I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am
unable to detect it properly in the BIOS.

It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from
windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW'
filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS.

I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official
samsung site
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200310/20031017171605421_InstallGuide_ENGLISH.pdf

I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it
still appears as a 32gb drive.

I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp
installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents"
files for a friend.

Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action.

Many thanks
 
Gameface said:
Hi,
I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am
unable to detect it properly in the BIOS.

It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from
windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW'
filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS.

I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official
samsung site
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200310/20031017171605421_InstallGuide_ENGLISH.pdf

I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it
still appears as a 32gb drive.

I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp
installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents"
files for a friend.

Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action.

Many thanks
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You are not going to like this, but it is probably a Bios limitation of your
Motherboard, I know my old Asus T2P4's would only see 32 GB of a 40GB drive.
Solved that by going to a new motherboard.

Cheers
Paul
 
It sounds like the BIOS of your motherboard may be too old to recognize a
harddrive larger than 32MB. You didn't give any details of your
motherboard/BIOS to be
able to help more.
 
Sorry about that - my motherboard accepts drives bigger than 32Gb, as my
main HDD is a Maxtor 6Y080P0 80Gb HDD - this works fine & is recognised
correctly by windows.

M/Board - Jetway V266A (uses Via KT266A chipset)
BIOS - Award Software Internation, Inc. 6.00 PG 05/10/2002

Hope that helps a bit :)
 
Hi,
I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am
unable to detect it properly in the BIOS.

It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from
windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW'
filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS.

I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official
samsung site
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200310/20031017171605421_InstallGuide_ENGLISH.pdf

I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it
still appears as a 32gb drive.

I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp
installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents"
files for a friend.

Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action.

Many thanks
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Did you jumper the drive wrong, that is, put a jumper on the 32GB limit
pins instead of the ones you wanted?
 
I'm hoping it the jumpers too... i'm gonna keep messing with these &
hopefully it will show the full 80gb - thnx for advice i'll let you knw how
it goes :D
 
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