HD size recognition

[haiway1]

I have a Seagate IDE 18G that's an OEM drive came from a Sun Ultra 10 box. I'm now using it with an Intel PC running XP. My PC BIOS sees it as 18G but during the XP installs it only recognized 8G. I have FDISK and format the drive but no change. It works fine but only as an 8G drive in Windows XP. I have tried everything but cannot figure why only 8G. The drive is from Seagate and made for Sun. It's just a regular IDE drive. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[paparazi]

Hidden unrecognised partition?
Try downloading Seagates own free hard drive utility software (Disk Wizard?) carry out a full diagnostics, this tool can also prepare the drive for use.
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[micker377]

There may be jumpers on the drive to "throttle" it down to the limited BIOS on the old Sun computer. Look close at the master/slave jumpers. Do a Google search on the drive model number and see if you can find info on the drive.

 

[haiway1]

I tried everything and it did not work. I then used Partition Magic and that solved the problem. Thanks all for the suggestions.