HD question please help :(

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:35 pm

i have a question about my HD, its fairly new its a Seagate barracuda 160gig. but in windows it says it only has 127gig, thats almost 30gig that isint showing up, whats the deal?

Ty.

Whitewulf

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:07 pm

Latest BIOS is needed to break past the 137 gig barrier for a single drive.
combined with...
a minimum of service pack 3 for Windows 2000, or service pack 1 for Windows XP.

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:21 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Latest BIOS is needed to break past the 137 gig barrier for a single drive.
combined with...
a minimum of service pack 3 for Windows 2000, or service pack 1 for Windows XP.

huh?
i dont understand what u mean... what bios? the mobo bios? i dont even know how to flash the mobo to update the bios =/

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:27 pm

Yessir, your mobo BIOS. Are we talking about the rig in your sig? Asus has their live update utility to flash the BIOS right through Windows, online. Caution is wise when flashing your BIOS, read and proceed carefully. If the flash does not go 100% correctly, you can end up with a completely dead motherboard.

What OS are you running? What service pack?

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:30 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Yessir, your mobo BIOS. Are we talking about the rig in your sig? Asus has their live update utility to flash the BIOS right through Windows, online. Caution is wise when flashing your BIOS, read and proceed carefully. If the flash does not go 100% correctly, you can end up with a completely dead motherboard.

What OS are you running? What service pack?

these are my system specs Asus A7N8X Deluxe, XP3000+, 1GB TwinX Corsair XMS3200, 80GB 7200RPM IDE, 40GB 7200RPM IDE, ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256mb, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1, 16x DVD-ROM, Lite-On CDRW,

Running WinXP Pro, networked on Charter Pipeline 3000/256 cable internet. running service pack 2

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:33 pm

im also OCing so if i need to set it to default settings before i redo the bios then let me know, i OCed it to a 3200+

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:40 pm

Wulf's A7N8X is running 1008 BIOS.

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:53 pm

the only thing i can update it to is the 1009 beta, and im not gunna update to a beta bios lol. its gotta be the HD, its an IDE btw

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:15 pm

His BIOS should be up to date enough to get past the 137 gb problem.

gieslel · Post by **gieslel** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:41 am

Goto Seagates website. I heard there is a cure for this.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:02 pm

how did u format the drive?

BOWTYE8 · Post by **BOWTYE8** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:16 am

I am running a seagate sata 160 drive on Asus A7n8x delux. win xp serv pk 1.I followed instructions here.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/ ... winxp.html

In windows Its reading 149 gig out of the 160.
The only I tem I had troubles with was trying to find the power cable. My tower has only 4 pin connectors

You know whats its like when you come home to a package at the door....only to find out you can install it that night

iaus10 · Post by **iaus10** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:46 am

read all of stonecat's post... you need 2000 SP3. SP2 and earlier don't support 48bit LBA... needed for getting more than 137GB capacity.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/

Chief Wiggum · Post by **Chief Wiggum** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:40 am

Hello,

i'm new here. I had the same problem when i installed my 200gb WD drive. I went through all the windows help stuff, bios update, service pack, registry changes etc.

To fix this problem when all else has failed, use partition magic 8 or something similar. Create one partition and input the true size of your hard drive as the partition size.
It worked for me.

Just backup any data just in case though!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:30 am

BOWTYE8 wrote:I am running a seagate sata 160 drive on Asus A7n8x In windows Its reading 149 gig out of the 160..........

that is the correct size, it has to do with the way they advertise drives versus the actual size.

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:27 am

True, you need Windows XP SP1 in order to have drive capacities larger than 137 GB available from the beginning (i.e., during OS install), but you also need to keep this in mind:

Various Drive Sizes and their Binary and Decimal Capacities