HELP new 250GB 7200.10 seen as 137Gb

rpstewart · 3 May 2007 at 15:10

Have you tried deleting the Dynamic disk and converting it back to a basic one within Vista?

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

Mana · 3 May 2007 at 16:20

try using the manufacturers windows setup utilities. most companies have them. i remember i had to do the same for some of my large western digital hard drives. i dont think the hard drive is faulty as i remember seeing a lot of this on other forums. make sure that u have the latest service packs installed as well.

hth

SkeeterUK · 3 May 2007 at 16:29

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

Would this help?

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.

SkeeterUK · 3 May 2007 at 18:10

try reformatting it other than a windows format way. Try fdisk or somit else.

Tute · 3 May 2007 at 21:51

Sounds like an RMA jobby, especially if your other HDDs display fine.

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?