HI
I have a very strange problem I hope I can get some help from the group.
I have a machine AMD 1.33 (New motherboard) with Seagate 20GB H.G (ST320420A) (I have a two identical H.D's and both of them are facing the same problem)
WinME see the full 20GB HD and worked for a long time.
I have decided to upgrade to WinXP pro, I started with an upgrade, everything goes well until it boots for the first time, after XP displays the first winXP loading screen it dies getting the message, inaccessible_boot_device.
I decided to do a clean install, formatted the H.D from a boot diskette, I can see the full 20GB after format and boot.
Boot from CD and when It asked me to choose the drive I can see that winXP sees the drive as 8GB only, The BIOS setup is correct, I tried modifying the DMA setting in the BIOS, the PIO mode from AUTO to 0-4, changed the disk detection mode to CHS, LBA, AUTO, but the same, XP sees it as 8GB.
I took a Fujitsu 20GB H.D and XP sees it as 20GB.
I took a different computer, AMD XP 1700+, and had the same problem.
Seagate tech support is telling me it's a motherboard problem but they could explain me how it is working under winME, how come Fujitsu H.D is working, and how come I have the same problem on a different computer.
I have a very strange problem I hope I can get some help from the group.
I have a machine AMD 1.33 (New motherboard) with Seagate 20GB H.G (ST320420A) (I have a two identical H.D's and both of them are facing the same problem)
WinME see the full 20GB HD and worked for a long time.
I have decided to upgrade to WinXP pro, I started with an upgrade, everything goes well until it boots for the first time, after XP displays the first winXP loading screen it dies getting the message, inaccessible_boot_device.
I decided to do a clean install, formatted the H.D from a boot diskette, I can see the full 20GB after format and boot.
Boot from CD and when It asked me to choose the drive I can see that winXP sees the drive as 8GB only, The BIOS setup is correct, I tried modifying the DMA setting in the BIOS, the PIO mode from AUTO to 0-4, changed the disk detection mode to CHS, LBA, AUTO, but the same, XP sees it as 8GB.
I took a Fujitsu 20GB H.D and XP sees it as 20GB.
I took a different computer, AMD XP 1700+, and had the same problem.
Seagate tech support is telling me it's a motherboard problem but they could explain me how it is working under winME, how come Fujitsu H.D is working, and how come I have the same problem on a different computer.