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| 69278 | 2002-08-07 22:53:00 | Hi again. Recently I upgraded the hardware in my Computer. In the old machine my 40GB harddrive ever only recognised 33GB. When I moved the harddrive into the new machine I accidently had the harddrive setup as primary slave (old computer needed two jumpers in new machine I removed one but had jumper on wrong pins.) the computer works fine like this but only recognises 33GB still However when I changed it to the primary Master, it recognised the full 40GB, Unfortuneatly Windows refused to load. Why? My guess is because the harddrive isn't formated correctly. I was getting a VFAT error or something like that. If I used a boot up disk I could see everything on the harddrive in the two partitions but I couldn't access the other 7GB. I have since changed it back to slave and I can load windows again. I want however to have the harddrive set as Master and I want to access the full 40GB, I don't however want to have to reformat the computer. Any suggestions as to how I can get windows to run correctly as master with the full 40GB?? Thanks all :) |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 69279 | 2002-08-07 23:02:00 | I doubt you'll be able to set it up as 40gb without a reformat, as Windows itself thinks it is installed on, and the drive has been formatted as, 33gb. So without a reformat you'll only be able to use it as 33gb. When it detects Primary master as 40gb you can change it to be 33gb (somehow :)) and you'll be able to use it on that channel, but without a reformat you'll be stuck with 33gb. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 69280 | 2002-08-07 23:19:00 | Hdd detected in BIOS as 33GB and formatted as such can only be read as 33GB. To run it as Primary Master you could manually override the settings in the BIOS to allow you have a "User Defined" HDD size. Just go into the bios and take a look at the current settings for the drive when it is bootable running as Primary Slave. Swap it to be the master and then go back into the BIOS and add the "user defined" settings. Failing that copy all the data that you want to keep off the drive and then trash it and set it up as 40GB. | ecko_nzed (652) | ||
| 69281 | 2002-08-08 21:57:00 | Thanks all, What I think I will end up doing is seting it up as master 33GB get another 40GB Harddrive and Ghost everything over and then reformat it into 40GB :) |
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