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Drive disappears after installin windows SP!!

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kavans

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Nov 16, 2002
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Hi - I just got a 20 gb seagate baraacuda hard drive.
I am havin some problems with it.
The drive works fine with win 9x.
However it wont work with windows 2000/xp.

My system is AMd athlon with motherboard of asus.
I also have 40 gb hard drive(seagate) which works fine.

When i try to use 20 gb drive as slave or master,
it shows as 8 gb drive in windows 2000/xp with no file system.

i formatted the drive many times. still it wont work.
it works fine on dos, win 98/me.

after nothing worked, i tried diff jumper settings.
on one settin, it worked. i used the last jumper slot which
limits the drive capacity. when i used this one, i was able to
see drive fine in windows 2000/xp. i have no idea why it worked on this jumper setting.

now this all was working fine until i installed windows 2000
service pack. after doin that, same problem with drive. it
shows as 8 gb drive on windows 2000. if i un install service pack, it works fine.

no such issues with windows xp.

so whats going on? ne ideas? is this the problem with drive? motherboard? os?

my motherboard bios is updated. do i need to change any settings?
i looked at all settings. they all seem fine.

please help!!!!!

Ricky.

 
With service packed 2k have you put jumper back to 'proper' postition?
 
Well, at first i did not. then i read at MS site that i should not put jumper at that slot to limit drive capacity.

after doin that, nothin happ. its still same problem.






 
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