120GB 2nd IDE HD recognized as 33GB

[armygeorge]

primary HD is a 80GB WD cavier and the slave is a 120GB WD cavier. The slave is not seen as 120, but as 33. What happended and how do I fix this...using XP. Thanks, AG

 

[Jeff7]

Check the drive's jumpers again - some drives have a setting to limit the capacity to 32GB so that old systems can see the drive.

 

[FastEddie]

Install SP2, and you should see all the drives capacity.

 

[armygeorge]

Installed everything from scratch and am running XP Pro with SP2...still 32GB on the 120GB drive. Jumpers look okay, but I'll pull them off and try again. Thanks, AG

 

[spanky]

did u ever figure this one out? i am having a similar prob with a 120gb diamondmax plus 9. cap limit jumper is not on, but bios sees this drive as 33gb. i'm thinking this is a hardware prob with the hd.

 

[PENNSYLVANIARON]

hi:

Start with making the 120 the master just to see if the bios sees it as a 120...if so we know its not the bios...

 

[intogamer]

Check where to put the jumpers. Some hds have different places for master, slave, etc...
won't hurt to double check.

 

[CraigRT]

is the drive already formatted as FAT32?
should be NTFS if it's 30 and up.

 

[PING]

you must be thinking of FAT16. FAT32 can support new drives > 30GB. I second, third or fourth the the jumper on 32GB support of hard drive.