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| Thread ID: 59148 | 2005-06-23 04:08:00 | My Seagate 80 gig Hard drive only shows 33 gig on bios | danv802002 (8402) | Press F1 |
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| 366229 | 2005-06-23 04:08:00 | All right so I bought a new seagate barracuda 7200.7 80 gig hard drive. My system is fairly new. I have a pc chips M955G Motherboard w/ a VIA VT8237 south bridge chipset. My CPU is a P4 3.0 socket 478. Now my issue is I installed the drive and and my bios only shows it as 33.*** gigs. I had to load my OS to be able to research the issue but the most common thing I saw said to flash the bios. So I went to the pc chips website found my chipset and flashed the bios. My bios still reads the drive as 33.*** gigs. All settings in the bios are set to auto. Also my bios shows it as "Primary Slave" rather than "Primary Master". I am running XP PRO SP2. So this is where I am at. Any help would be greatly appreciated. p.s. I also can't get my 40 gig seagate to show up on the bios. But we can take one step at a time. :D |
danv802002 (8402) | ||
| 366230 | 2005-06-23 04:12:00 | See if the jumper on the hard drive, is jumpered to 32gb. Some hard drives, have this option. If it is change it. If its shows primary slave, see what it has been jumpered to (Master or slave), on the back of the hard drive. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366231 | 2005-06-23 04:14:00 | I have one jumper pin on the drive. It is on the far left, this is the pin that the manual said was for master. :confused: | danv802002 (8402) | ||
| 366232 | 2005-06-23 04:25:00 | What did you format the hard drive in?? FAT32 or NTFS? And what version of Windows did u install? And whats the model of this hdd? Can u remember? I take it the 80 and 40 GB are both IDE?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366233 | 2005-06-23 04:32:00 | I formated the drive in NTFS. I installed XP Version 2002 SP2. The Hard Drive is Seagate 80 GB Barracuda ATA HD PN: 9W2892-540 |
danv802002 (8402) | ||
| 366234 | 2005-06-23 04:40:00 | Hmm ok No wrong # . Thats the part # . Whats the model #?? It'll start with ST312, ST380, or similar . This maybe on the top of that 80gb hdd . Then I can see what the back of this hdd looks like . Or can u take a photo of the back of it and post it here . So, we can see what the back of the hdd looks like . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366235 | 2005-06-23 04:46:00 | The Model number is ST380013A. | danv802002 (8402) | ||
| 366236 | 2005-06-23 04:57:00 | I would read this info, it looks like its yours. Is LBA enabled in the BIOS? www.seagate.com Or try putting the cylinders etc in the BIOS manually. See if reads the full capacity. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366237 | 2005-06-23 05:05:00 | Alright...I'm an it was an ID10T error. I went and look at the back of the drive and realized that I had it in upside down. So the jumper pin was on limit 32. I changed it and it is now reading 80 gigs and Primary Master. Sorry | danv802002 (8402) | ||
| 366238 | 2005-06-23 05:08:00 | Also...Thank you very much for your help. As simple as it was I probably would have kept overlooking it. | danv802002 (8402) | ||
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