ASRock Dual SATA & Spinpoint HD Problem

Magic_x_uk · 12 Mar 2006 at 13:54

I have the ASRock Dual sata mothebroard (all the rest of my PC is in sig)

Main HD is a 74GB Raptor
connected onto sata I socket 1,

Just brought last week and installed today a

Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache

from OcUK

now i have installed it onto the RED SATA II socket on the motherboard.

I can see and use my new HD in my computer

BUT, and here lies the problem

I have formated and am using NTFS

But if i right click the drive in My Computer

it says

71.7 MB USED

232 GB Free

I cannot see any files in there, nor if i enable "show all hidden files etc"

Why is this, Shouldnt it be 250GB free avaialble.

Or am i missing something

In Bios, everything is on Auto, dont have anywhere to physically put in the capacity.

using Bios ver P1.50

Whats wrong......

help.....

basmic · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:06

System Restore enabled?

smids · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:07

Nothing wrong. The 70MB or so is the file system - you will never see it.

232GB is correct for a 250GB drive.

HDU manufacturers use 1GB is 1000MB and 1MB is 1000KB and 1KB is 1000B.

Windows uses the correct sizing 1GB is 1024MB, 1MB is 1024KB and 1KB is 1024B.

Thus, a 250GB HDU is actually 250,000,000,000B. Thus, when divided by 1024^3 instead of 1000^3, you will only end up with 232GB. It's the same for all drives. 160Gb is about 149GB 120Gb is about 111GB etc.

Magic_x_uk · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:10

Just checked and it is clicked in both hard drives, Raptor being BOOT and OS drive,

The new HD (Spinpoint) has 12% 28616 as "disk space to use" and monitoring.

So should i use this system restore even though its not the main HD ? just for storage ?

Magic_x_uk · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:11

Thanks all of you. Learn something new every day.

Now in the BIOS, it's (SATA II) in one of the option set as IDE, but you can choose SATA, should i change it, or just leave everything alone.

smids · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:13

Not sure about your BIOS but use SATA mode for the Sammie drive, it will increase burst speed by a fair way and probably enable NCQ etc.

Magic_x_uk · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:43

tried that with the changing in the BIOS from IDE to sata and when Windows booted up, the drive was not even there ? seems to only be there in IDE

smids · 12 Mar 2006 at 16:08

Magic_x_uk said:
tried that with the changing in the BIOS from IDE to sata and when Windows booted up, the drive was not even there ? seems to only be there in IDE

Have you installed the drivers for the port? If not, when switching to SATA mode, it probably won't see the drive.

Mrchu_ · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:35

you use ide mode to boot to windows then i believe you download the drivers for sata 2 then install from device manager.then you can use in sata2 after reboot....-I think.

Magic_x_uk · 14 Mar 2006 at 14:32

Oh right, but it's all working at the moment (but in BIOS its called IDE) all seems fine. Just using that drive as a storage area, mp'3 , photos etc

seems to access everything instantly though.

Maybe i should leave things alone, ill only break it lol

Mrchu_ · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:28

you could do,or you could get the correct drivers from the manufacture website install them anyway.(system restore on)then youd have that drive using the sata2 speed. you could then partiton it off for storage and a place for a seperate page file, on a seperate controller.Other windows cache files could also be stored there and accessed quickly.

it sppeds some things up for me.its not too difficult to do but a good backup is recommended.
just an idea