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Zycor
Posted on 07-13-08 02:14 AM Link | Quote | ID: 87393


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OK, so I don't know if I've asked about this before, but it kinda bothers me. I decided to get my 80 gig hard drive out of my dead computer and put it in this one and this computer reads it as a 31.4 gig hard drive... what the hell is going on?

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Either a bad HD, or your BIOS simply isn't reading it correctly. Does windows say it's 31.4 GBytes, and did only one drive letter show up?

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Well, my C drive and D drive (which is the one I added) both show up, and Windows says my D drive is 31.4 GBs. I guess it could be BIOs, but I'm not entirely sure.

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Did you clear all the old data off it?

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The problem is almost certainly caused by an old BIOS or OS. A little searching regarding hard disk size barriers turned up a rather informative page at http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm. Your problem may be the 65536 cylinder barrier described on that page.

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you can fix it by backing up the data on a computer that can read it and installing a disk manager program on it, usually comes with the setup CD you get with it or you can find it online. It replaces the BIOS's disk access functionality, I guess.

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Partitioning might work (you'd have to partition it from another computer).

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Posted on 08-05-08 05:13 AM (rev. 2 of 08-05-08 05:15 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 88559

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Did you format the drive FAT32?
If I remember right, Windows XP cannot create a FAT32 partition larger than 32gig. It can work with fat32 partitions that are larger but cannot make them.

I do all my partitioning with gparted under Ubuntu and it supports a plethora of file systems and operations.

Try using the gparted livecd
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

The benefit being you can partition it on the same computer, and you can make 3 primary partitions in case it's a limitation of your bios.

Hope that helps ya and good luck!


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