My 80GB drive only access 33GB! Help 1

[wr213]

I have an IBM GXP 120-80GB Hardrive that I just cloned using XXcopy as suggested here (Thanks!). I have a P-III 700 MHZ using WINME with 512 MB. The problem I have is that for me to get the system to `recognize the drive I had to use the jumper "32GB clip" which evidently limited the size of the drive to 32GB. Any other combination of jumpers that I tried would not be recognized by my BIOS and when doing the IDE Detection part it would just sit there idle looking for the drive.

How do I get to recognize the rest of my drive without affecting the current structure of the drive file system?

There must be a jumper setting or something that will unleash the rest I would think. Thanks for all the help.

 

[TyrantSSV]

What motherboard you have?
If it is an old i440BX MB or some one like this it may have an old BIOS not recognizing HDD larger than 32 G. Find out a new BIOS version for your motherboard and load it to flashROM chip. The new BIOS must recognize HDD up to 127 G.

 

[thatrenowned]

Its definately a BIOS issue so if you can post the model of your board, I'm sure someone can give you the right update.

Regards

 

[Snickle]

Same problem with my 2.5year old Athlon Slot A BIOS, sees 32GB of a 40GB drive. Have a BIOS update to go up to 75GB drives for it, just haven't done it.

 

[Kerros]

First thing to do is check the jumper settings on the drive. If your system BIOS was unable to see the drive, you may have set the jumpers to the 32GB clip settings. You would want to use the 16 head slave settings as shown on the IBM website here:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/d120gxp/d120gxpjum.htm

If your bios does not detect the full compasity of the drive, I would suggest getting a BIOS update to get around that limitation.

Most drives have that jumper because of a BIOS limitation of 32GB