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Profile: stranger
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Hello everyone.
Message edited by lord_fabs on 06-05-2008 at 09:53:33 AM |
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Profile: old hand
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What version of Windows you using? Have your formatted the drive yet? |
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Profile: stranger
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In windows disk manager, and in the windows vista installation, the drive appears as a 32MB drive... And (in case you were wondering), I can create a working partition in this tiny space. |
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It sounds like you need to update the BIOS on your Gigabyte MB. |
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That's a logical conclusion, however i'm unsure as to how to update the bios. I'll see if I can find a guide. If it works out, i'll post again. |
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How cool is that!
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Hang on a sec. That's not his only drive obviously! What size are your other drive/drives?
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if it didnt support SATAII, it simply would not show up. That is not his problem. Update your BIOS, then format it with the tools that came with the disk. --------------- macgirlfriend: "Hey I don't get you people, the people on insanely mac were so much nicer" |
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Try running Samsung's drive diagnostic/configuration utility, I have heard of larger (Samsung) drives incorrectly reporting capacity due to the internal configuration data being screwed-up. |
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Try running this:
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Did you format the drive? |
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OK, this mobo has full support for SATA II, and ALL such boards have BIOS support for 48-bit LBA, so a BIOS update is not the issue. But the 32 MB size limit can arise another way. When you partitioned and formatted the drive in Disk Management, what File System did you use? Some of Microsoft's OS's (I'm not sure about Vista) allow you to make a FAT-32 Partition but will NOT make one larger than 32 MB. You should be partitioning it with an NTFS File System; that will let you make any partition size up to one full-capacity volume.
Message edited by Paperdoc on 06-05-2008 at 03:28:47 PM |
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Windows XP will format a FAT32 partition up to 32GB, not 32MB. If his drive is actually showing as 32MB, the file system is not the problem.
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Profile: stranger
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MrLinux's link to ES tool turned out to solve my problem... although it was a little bit strange. I restored the native size, but it seemed to revert when i turned the computer off. Later on I booted the floppy disk again and ran ES tool again, and restored the native size, but I also formatted the MFT which may or may not have fixed it. At any rate it seems fine now. Thanks for everyone's help! Message edited by lord_fabs on 06-05-2008 at 09:57:42 AM |
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Glad it's sorted.
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I just purchased this drive and I have the same problem. First I connected it to my current windows installation, it worked fine, 1TB and I could create partitions. Then I wanted to install Windows XP sp2 on it but it reported 33MB. I used some tool to restore it to full capacity and tried again. Each time I try to install Windows, it switches to 33MB capacity. Once that happens it reports it in bios and widnows and I have to restore it again. I have pretty modern mobo P35-DQ6, something is not right with this drive. |
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I got around this problem by switching my controller to AHCI mode. I could install any system on it as long as SATA driver were loaded. |
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