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  1. Gerbaba

    CD/DVD Issue or Power Supply?

    For clarification: I've had a Toshiba CD/DVD on the comp and it has worked well untill a recent issue in which I had problems turning the rig on. It wouldn't boot properly. After which, I have had the light on the drive flashing incesantly and recognizing the drive being there, but not reading...
  2. Gerbaba

    250Gig Hard Drive only Formats to 131Gig!!!

    Okay, I had my old 60GB die on me and got the 250GB working in time to salvage most of it. But disk management was checked and the BIOS was flashed with no changes to the situation. Regardless of the fact my XP comes with SP2, and the BIOS already could recognize LBA drives, what solved the...
  3. Gerbaba

    250Gig Hard Drive only Formats to 131Gig!!!

    Now that I am back... One 80GB reports as 33.5 in BIOS One reports fine. 250GB reports as 33.5 in Bios and only detected as a slave no matter how the jumpers are set. Windows and bundled installation software sees them the same way.
  4. Gerbaba

    250Gig Hard Drive only Formats to 131Gig!!!

    The motherboard is new. I built it last year. I have been using the 80 wire cables, due to the drives coming with them, however, due to holiday traffic at home, I haven't had the opportunity to try the 250GB drive alone recently, but I do recall that was the only time it reported it's size was...
  5. Gerbaba

    250Gig Hard Drive only Formats to 131Gig!!!

    I am having a similar issue. I have had both my new drives reporting small sizes. I do have XP with SP2 and my BIOS only recognizes the size sometimes. One drive I got to work was an old 80GB drive. The new Western Digital 80 is reporting 30hex and the 250 Seagate reports 31GB in size. I have a...

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