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

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

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

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 15:56

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

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 16:00

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

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?

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:

Ronaldo · 2 May 2007 at 22:03

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

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

Ronaldo · 3 May 2007 at 15:22

yes mate i have and its still the same

I think its the firmware of the hdd. currently 3.AA

Ronaldo · 3 May 2007 at 18:02

SkeeterPSA said:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d8344a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Would this help?

tried all that, it could be my mobo bios, yes i have current. this is major mobo so i'd expect it to support, as my maxtor 250GB works.

or its the HDD firmware.

Ronaldo · 4 May 2007 at 20:46

Hi guys still no joy but i checked my IDE settings and its got LBA,Large,Auto and sumthing else but these options are not selectable on SATA, i only get auto and large on SATA.

any one shine some light on this :confused:

Ronaldo · 5 May 2007 at 22:06

hmm i think i found out what the problem is, the harddrive LBA is set to normal and not 48bit, i used the dos seatool to check, i tried to set manual and max address but get a error, something about power cycle.

any one know a quick easy way to set LBA address on hdds please?