help with XP and my Slave HD

[newbietothecomp 0]

hi i dont know **** about comps i just installed a secondary HD on my comp and i have 1 exactly the same already as my master they both 30 gig HDs but the new 1 i just hooked up is only reading 1.97gb why if its a 30 gig HD will it say 1.97? am i doing something wrong?

please if u can help me post back or email me at griffith01@cox.net i would really appreciate it thnx alot

[DosFreak 2]

Describe EXACTLY what you did.

 

Did you connect the HD to the same cable as the other HD?

Did you format the new HD or did you just boot up the computer and saw in XP that it only showed 1.97gb?

 

It sounds to me like it was either formatted with FAT16 before you purchased it or you formated it yourself wit FAT16. FAT16 supports a maximum of 2gb partitions, which is why it is likely showing up as 1.97gb.

[newbietothecomp 0]

i just turned off comp hooked it up to same cable as my other HD and then i formatted it in NTFS and it still said 1.97

[newbietothecomp 0]

somebody please help me its getting really irritating i tried everything my friends told me to i need expert help im sensitive and gonna cry

[newbietothecomp 0]

ok i tried a 12gig i had lying around i took the 30 im trying to put in thats only reading 1.97 gb and put in this 12 gb HD and it worked fine could it be the 30 gig is corrupt? how would i find out if it was corrupt for sure??

[AndyFair 0]

Hook up the new drive again, make sure the jumper settings have it as slave.

Boot XP, go to Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.

 

What do you see for the new drive? Is it partitioned, are the partitions formatted? If so, what format is used? If not, you need to create some partitions and format them.

 

Just ask if you want more help!

 

Rgds

AndyF

[newbietothecomp 0]

i did all that already went to disk management partitioned it and formatted it in NTFS and it still comes up 1.97 then i got a old 12 gig i had that was always at like 11.6 something i put it in and it gives me 12.45 or something so why wouldnt the 30 work?

[Alien 1]

Have you checked the jumper settings on the HDD itself? Some HDDs have a jumper setting to limit it to various sizes as certain motherboards can't use HDDs bigger than X amount. I had to limit my mum's new 41.2GB 60GXP to 32GB cos any bigger & her 440BX board wouldn't recognise it

[newbietothecomp 0]

well i have a asus a7v133 MB and the HD is a Maxtor Diamond Plus 60 7200 RPM but the thing is my master HD is the exact same thing as the one im trying to put in EXACT same thing as my master and it wont work so im not sure

[Alien 1]

What I meant was check the jumpers on the HDD itself - they may be set wrong - find the info for your HDD & check to make sure that the jumpers aren't set to limit the size of the HDD.

[newbietothecomp 0]

i dont have the manuals on my HD thats the shitty part

[DosFreak 2]

Look on your HD's stickers for model numbers. Go to their respective websites. All HD websites have jumper settings.

[AndyFair 0]

Quote:

Look on your HD's stickers for model numbers. Go to their respective websites. All HD websites have jumper settings.

...and most HDs have the jumper settings printed on the label on top of the drive.

Rgds
AndyF