32G Seen instead of 250G on HDD

[maverixz]

I just got a Western Digital 250Gig HDD and I insterted it into an Ultra Mini Portable Hard Disk Enclosure. It connects to the PC via a USB 2.0 port and when I fired it up, my PC only sees 32G. My BIOS had been updated to the latest version from the PC manufacturer's site (Pavilion 754n).

Help, where did I go wrong?

 

[wolluf]

I've not used an enclosure yet - but presumably you have to set drive's jumpers (to master/slave/CS etc)? Has your drive got a limiting (to 32GB) jumper for 'backward compatibility' - that you've inadvertently set?

PS - Is it the PC (bios - POST screen) or the operating sytem seeing 32Gb?

 

[maverixz]

Hi Wolluf,

Thanks for the reply. In the Bios screen, it doesn't see the drive and this i presume is because it is connected vai USB not IDE and it is set to being the Primary Slave.

Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time intelligently.

 

[micker377]

Where does your computer show 32meg? What OS? Can you temporarily mount the drive directly to the computer as "slave" and check on the size? This would narrow it down to drive, or adapter housing.