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Andy
KEYWORDS: IBM Hard Drive 33GB 32.83GB 82.3GB FDisk Windows XP NTFS
FAT32 work full capacity maximum limitation jumpers
Hi everyone,
I read a bunch of these newsgroups for the last couple days and have
spent several hours trying to fix my problem with no luck. Finally
after rereading some of the posts and rethinking the problem I have
finally fixed my problem. So, Dust off that old hard drive and make
it work! I did!
Here was my problem:
I got a new computer that has an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe with an Intel
P4-3.0Ghz HT chip and 1 GB of DDRAM. It came with a new 115GB hard
drive and I wanted to put my old hard drive on there as a secondary
hard drive. The system is running on Windows XP Professional. When I
first put it on I discovered that the BIOS and XP could only see a
33.82GB hard drive. I was confused. I pulled out the secondary hard
drive and looked at it. It said:
IBM Deskstar ( I believe it's a 120GXP)
Mar-2002
Model: IC35L080AVVA07-0 ATA/IDE
Capacity: 82.3GB RPM: 7200RPM
P/N: 07N9210 MLC: H32657
LBA: 160,836,480 Sectors CHS: 16383/16/63
Serial: 07N9210H326570S23
P/N: 07N9210
S/N: A4C8GTLA
Somehow, somewhere, I must have done something wrong and messed up the
MBR. I came to this conclusion from the generous advice of the
newsgroup postings and from looking at what was happening. XP was
reporting a 33.82GB hard drive, BIOS was reporting a 33.82GB hard
drive and even Partition Magic 8.0 was reporting a 33.82GB hard drive.
Nothing I did could change it. I tried moving jumpers, changing IDE
ports, deleting partitions, erasing files, reformatting, fdisk,
Partition Magic 8.0, forcing BIOS to recognize...nothing.
(By the way, Partition Magic 8.0 is still a nifty program to buy if
you want to maximize or rearrange partition space...if you have a disk
with data on it. Otherwise if you are working with a blank disk you
should be able to do it with FDISK or your operating system.)
So anyway...the solution...[drum roll]...
IBM's very own downloadable utility program >>> "IBM Feature Tool" or
the file that you will download will be called "IBMFTool-Install.exe"
This file can be found on IBM's website. I have provided a link
below. My disclaimers come now: You must be very careful with this
and other utility tools. You take your own chances by performing this
operation. I am not responsible for the actions you take with your
judgement in using this utility. Please read the instructions and
consult with IBM if you have any ANY questions or reservations. The
full name is IBM Feature Tool, Version 1.50, Build 12 for DOS.
Here's how I did it:
o Downloaded the file
o Placed a 3.5" floppy disk in my disk drive
o Ran the "ibmftool-install.exe" which created a bootable disk
o Restarted the computer
o Select the drive in question (Be Careful! Do not select your
system drive!)
o Chose the "Features Tab"
o Selected "Change Capacity"
o Now look and see what the program tells you. [I was amazed! The
manuafacturing values matched what I thought and what was listed on
the hard drive's label. However, the Current values listed the values
for a 33.82GB hard drive!!! Unbelievable. Somehow I had made the hard
drive think it was a 33.82GB and therefore everything else (BIOS, XP,
Partition Magic 8.0) also thought so.]
o You now are presented with a choice of
Enter New Capacity
(*) Save Permanently
( ) Do Not Save
New Capacity (GByte):[ ]
[OK] [Cancel} [Options]
o You can either put in the new capacity or choose Options. I chose
options because I didn't want to screw it up and put in too much
(didn't work) or too little (which means you would have to clean it up
later).
o A box pops up and you have a choice of choosing the following:
1) Maximum Capacity
2) 32 GB
3) 8 GB
4) Cancel
o I chose Maximum Capacity
o You than will be redirected to the first screen to choose "Save
Permanently" and press OK.
After 20-30 minutes...VOILA! That's it! Now I got my fully restored
full-size hard disk as advertised. After this, I just restarted with
Windows XP and used XP to partition the hard disk and format it.
[Right Click on My Computer, Pick Manage, Storage, Logical Drives, and
Right Click to get the option to Create Partition. Note: You cannot
create a new partition on the system drive]
Anyways, here's my 2 cent contribution to the newsgroups. Thank you
all and hope others can benefit from this.
Here is the link to the file:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/ibmftool-install.exe
I didn't use this one, but you may [Some say it works too]:
http://www.samsung.com/servlet/Down...clearhdd.exe&realname=clearhdd.exe&country=HQ
(Be careful because this one is very Dos-Techie like and requires
putting in commands at the prompt level. No interface! Also, Samsung
likes moving their files around on the website so you may have to
search for it if the link does not work. It's there when I tried
downloading it.)
andy
FAT32 work full capacity maximum limitation jumpers
Hi everyone,
I read a bunch of these newsgroups for the last couple days and have
spent several hours trying to fix my problem with no luck. Finally
after rereading some of the posts and rethinking the problem I have
finally fixed my problem. So, Dust off that old hard drive and make
it work! I did!
Here was my problem:
I got a new computer that has an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe with an Intel
P4-3.0Ghz HT chip and 1 GB of DDRAM. It came with a new 115GB hard
drive and I wanted to put my old hard drive on there as a secondary
hard drive. The system is running on Windows XP Professional. When I
first put it on I discovered that the BIOS and XP could only see a
33.82GB hard drive. I was confused. I pulled out the secondary hard
drive and looked at it. It said:
IBM Deskstar ( I believe it's a 120GXP)
Mar-2002
Model: IC35L080AVVA07-0 ATA/IDE
Capacity: 82.3GB RPM: 7200RPM
P/N: 07N9210 MLC: H32657
LBA: 160,836,480 Sectors CHS: 16383/16/63
Serial: 07N9210H326570S23
P/N: 07N9210
S/N: A4C8GTLA
Somehow, somewhere, I must have done something wrong and messed up the
MBR. I came to this conclusion from the generous advice of the
newsgroup postings and from looking at what was happening. XP was
reporting a 33.82GB hard drive, BIOS was reporting a 33.82GB hard
drive and even Partition Magic 8.0 was reporting a 33.82GB hard drive.
Nothing I did could change it. I tried moving jumpers, changing IDE
ports, deleting partitions, erasing files, reformatting, fdisk,
Partition Magic 8.0, forcing BIOS to recognize...nothing.
(By the way, Partition Magic 8.0 is still a nifty program to buy if
you want to maximize or rearrange partition space...if you have a disk
with data on it. Otherwise if you are working with a blank disk you
should be able to do it with FDISK or your operating system.)
So anyway...the solution...[drum roll]...
IBM's very own downloadable utility program >>> "IBM Feature Tool" or
the file that you will download will be called "IBMFTool-Install.exe"
This file can be found on IBM's website. I have provided a link
below. My disclaimers come now: You must be very careful with this
and other utility tools. You take your own chances by performing this
operation. I am not responsible for the actions you take with your
judgement in using this utility. Please read the instructions and
consult with IBM if you have any ANY questions or reservations. The
full name is IBM Feature Tool, Version 1.50, Build 12 for DOS.
Here's how I did it:
o Downloaded the file
o Placed a 3.5" floppy disk in my disk drive
o Ran the "ibmftool-install.exe" which created a bootable disk
o Restarted the computer
o Select the drive in question (Be Careful! Do not select your
system drive!)
o Chose the "Features Tab"
o Selected "Change Capacity"
o Now look and see what the program tells you. [I was amazed! The
manuafacturing values matched what I thought and what was listed on
the hard drive's label. However, the Current values listed the values
for a 33.82GB hard drive!!! Unbelievable. Somehow I had made the hard
drive think it was a 33.82GB and therefore everything else (BIOS, XP,
Partition Magic 8.0) also thought so.]
o You now are presented with a choice of
Enter New Capacity
(*) Save Permanently
( ) Do Not Save
New Capacity (GByte):[ ]
[OK] [Cancel} [Options]
o You can either put in the new capacity or choose Options. I chose
options because I didn't want to screw it up and put in too much
(didn't work) or too little (which means you would have to clean it up
later).
o A box pops up and you have a choice of choosing the following:
1) Maximum Capacity
2) 32 GB
3) 8 GB
4) Cancel
o I chose Maximum Capacity
o You than will be redirected to the first screen to choose "Save
Permanently" and press OK.
After 20-30 minutes...VOILA! That's it! Now I got my fully restored
full-size hard disk as advertised. After this, I just restarted with
Windows XP and used XP to partition the hard disk and format it.
[Right Click on My Computer, Pick Manage, Storage, Logical Drives, and
Right Click to get the option to Create Partition. Note: You cannot
create a new partition on the system drive]
Anyways, here's my 2 cent contribution to the newsgroups. Thank you
all and hope others can benefit from this.
Here is the link to the file:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/ibmftool-install.exe
I didn't use this one, but you may [Some say it works too]:
http://www.samsung.com/servlet/Down...clearhdd.exe&realname=clearhdd.exe&country=HQ
(Be careful because this one is very Dos-Techie like and requires
putting in commands at the prompt level. No interface! Also, Samsung
likes moving their files around on the website so you may have to
search for it if the link does not work. It's there when I tried
downloading it.)
andy