Hard Drive Capacity

[raythefire]

Have a Samsung SV1204H IDE Drive running on XP Pro with latest flash bios from Soltek which supports drives above 136gig. Partition Magic 8 reports 32 Gig hard drive should be 120 any ideas out there on how to stop it telling porky pies

 

[ski]

Is the HD partitioned with FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[nomadtech]

Wich kind of pc also, there is a lot of pc who cant break the 32g barrers "especially notebook"

 

[raythefire]

To Ski the partition is unallocated

To Nomatech it is an standard ATX pc

 

[Snickle]

Does the BIOS AutoDetect of the hard drive show the correct size? That has to happen before other things can see it. Since 32GB is a common limit on older BIOSes [I have one] I'd guess the flash update may not have 'taken'.

 

[raythefire]

To Berton
The boot Hard drive on this machine has a 60gig hard drive which the PC see's OK

 

[raythefire]

To all solved it.

The problem was this. On this particular HD the jumpers can be set to limit the drive to 32Gig. There was a label on the hard drive which covered up this informaton. The drive had been shipped set to the 32Gig Limit. Thanks to you all.

Raythefire