HELP new 250GB 7200.10 seen as 137Gb

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 15:17

Hi guys my new hdd came today its a seagate 7200.10 250GB but my bios only sees it as 137GB spec of system in sig plz help

windows vista sees it as 137gb too but everest says its a 250GB

rpstewart · 2 May 2007 at 15:32

Something's not using 48bit LBA that's for sure. The question is what.

That board should be OK, I'll go check the manual.

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 15:35

hi thnx for reply i checked bios there is no opetion for 48bit LBA

i do have a 250GB maxtor which shows up as 250gb

rpstewart · 2 May 2007 at 15:39

It's not shown as 48bit LBA, just "Large" as one of the access modes.

When you go into the BIOS I assume that the drive is showing OK on the main page? You should be able to scroll down to it and hit enter to show the details - what options are set when you do that?

Edit: Which SATA port is it on, one of the Nvidia ones or one of the Silicon Image ones?

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 15:41

hdd is showing in bios

there is a option for large when i hot that it shows 128gb and on auto 137gb

SkeeterUK · 2 May 2007 at 15:52

Perhaps a jumper is causing this on the hard drive.

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 15:56

hi no jumpers connected on the hdd. shouldnt the bios see it as 250GB?

rpstewart · 2 May 2007 at 15:58

That was one of my initial thoughts but the 7200.10s don't have a clip jumper on either the SATA or PATA models.

Ronaldo said:
hi no jumpers connected on the hdd. shouldnt the bios see it as 250GB?

Yeah, the BIOS should show the full capacity.

Have you tried it on one of the Silicon Image ports? It won't show in the main BIOS that way so you'll need to check in the SI RAID BIOS which will pop up after the main one.

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 16:00

if my bios does not see it as 250gb could it be faulty?

rpstewart · 2 May 2007 at 16:00

Possibly but try what I've mentioned above first

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 16:04

Silicon Image ports: i'll try that but they are not sata2 and its got a 2nd boot screen which takes up time

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 16:11

shows up as 137GB on that too.

any 1 with nvidia sata2 with the same drive?

rpstewart · 2 May 2007 at 16:49

I'm starting to wonder if the drive is OK. Have you run the Seagate diagnostics against it?

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 16:56

i done short now doing long, its called seatool

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 17:12

i have a 250GB Maxtor so it cant be the mobo/sata it has to be the drive dont it? :confused:

killer_uk · 2 May 2007 at 18:34

EDIT: Just re-read your post. I will edit this if I come up with anything.

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 22:03

done the test it came out fine . so i'm so confused abt this

Tute · 3 May 2007 at 12:02

Nobody's suggested it and it's a long shot - but do you have the latest BIOS?

SkeeterUK · 3 May 2007 at 12:07

One of the drives is showing as dynamic. Not sure what it means exactly but if thats the drive as its around about what you say is the gb showing. Then perhaps this "dynamic thing" is the thing that is showing the wrong size.

Also perhaps fdisk it or somit. Thats what i do when i get a new drive. So its setup properly.

Do you think it maybe a sata driver issue or one of ** ports on mb for sata is borked. Tryed it with a different connector?

Ronaldo · 3 May 2007 at 14:41

hi, dynamic is cuming up cos it was only format option on XP.

I connected on different ports, they have 120GB and 250Gb maxtors connected so the ports are fine. I think its a HDD problem, i emailed seagate let see what they say.

some one on the forums must have nforce 4 with seagate barrucada 7200.10.

please come fordward lol