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Thread ID: 104606	2009-11-02 08:21:00	Seagate U6 ST320410A HDD	Happy Harry (321)	Press F1

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826536	2009-11-02 08:21:00	Hi one and all I have in front of me a Seagate U6 ST320410A HDD liberated from an industrial PC core. The specs listed on the drive stipulate that it is a 20GB However when formatting the drive it always comes out at 2.1Gb. XPPro, Under Computer Management, Disk Managment, I can delete the partition but when I create a new partition and format we are back to 2.1Gb. I did find by Googling, that some of these drives have been truncated/destroked to fit the application that the particular PC runs. I have downloaded Seagate tools but have found nothing in there that helps. I know that the drive is of little use but now that I have tried to find out how to get it back to its real capacity, it is bugging me that I cannot find out how to do this. If anyone can help relieve my torment brain, please let me know. Cheers	Happy Harry (321)
826537	2009-11-02 08:44:00	It's a driver setting I think. If you do a google search for the drives model number, one of the first links is a PDF. (docs.google.com) Page 25 on the right shows the jumper layout. If you take a look at the drive from the pins. Look at the power socket. Next to it should be a set of 8 pins. The far right pair might have a jumper on it. Remove it and try formatting it.	bob_doe_nz (92)
826538	2009-11-02 21:42:00	Either a jumper is being used to limit the capacity - or someone has use a program to change the capacity in the drive firmware. Check the jumper, if that's not being used then download Seatools - there should be a restore capacity option or HDAT2 and use that to restore the native capacity. I find HDAT2 to be a lot better...	Agent_24 (57)
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