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Help - NEW Harddrive - 160GB only seeing 32MB

  • 09-11-2004 7:11pm
    #1
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭


    Please can anyone help. I'm going round the twist. I've just bought a new Seagate barracuda 160GB drive. I had formatted 2 partitions and had a few problems transferring files. So I tried to reformat with Fdisk and now I can only see 32MB. Here's what Fdisk tells me:

    Total disc space is 32248 bytes (1 mbyte = 1048576 bytes).

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    did you format the drive at its full size the first time?

    i take it your pc is old (win98/me?)
    in that case, buying a controller card for the device or flashing the bios is your only option.

    oh yeah. did you press 3 in fdisk to delete the old partition before trying to create a new one?
    *make sure that you've got the right hard drive selected when you do that*


  • #3
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    tman wrote:
    did you format the drive at its full size the first time?

    Yep. I orgionally had 3 partitions addng up to (afair) 160GB.
    tman wrote:
    i take it your pc is old (win98/me?)
    No XP Pro.
    tman wrote:
    did you press 3 in fdisk to delete the old partition before trying to create a new one?

    Yes but I had an NTFS partition. I did a bit of messing to be honest and now can't get past 32GB.


  • #4
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    so you're actually running xp pro now?

    go to start/control panel/administrative tools/computer managment
    then go to disk managment

    you should be able to sort it out from there


  • #5
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    i'm not sure which one you wanna use but this is what you want. http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

    you have to run disc wizard on seagate hard drives over 32 gigs to maximise them, theres a cap on them to begin with for whatever reason i dont know. hope that helps!


  • #6
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Easy one. XP can only create a FAT partition up to 32Gb, BUT can read a larger FAT drive no problem. Either format it with NTFS or get a Win98 bootdisk from the likes of bootdisk.com etc. Read more about it here.
    Just a regular Win9x bootdisk is all you need.


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  • #7
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    Thanks guy's. I'll try a Win98 disc tonight.


  • #8
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    ok. saw this problem recently.

    do you have the clip on the back set to only allow 32MB or something similar?


  • #9
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Any joy daveg?


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