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80GB drive only showing as 33GB

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dmw16

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Im having a little trouble with a hard drive my friend gave me to try to fix. It is supposed to be an 80GB Samsung drive, but it only shows as 32.something gigs. It was in his system when his motherboard went bad and Im wondering if something went wrong with it at that time. I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
thanks,
-doug
 
Originally posted by: Pariah
Was it working properly in the system before the MB went bad, or was it new?
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that's a must-know...

i'd say backup, format and partition and it should be all good!
 
I went ahead and fired up the WinXP installer just to see what it would see on the drive. It saw the whole drive. Dont know what the problem was, but all seems fine now.
thanks,
-doug
 
Well, to start with - I suspect you have an older computer that has an older BIOS and 32 MB (nominal) is as big a drive as it will allow. That's what happens when you put in a bigger drive - it reads at the limit it is allowed.
 
I had this problem, it wasn't the BIOS. Check to see if there's anything in the jumper spots. Having two jumpers (or a jumper where it shouldn't be) will mess up the size shown. Make sure it's jumpered correctly and there's nothing in the jumper spots.
 
He already transferred the drive to another computer and the whole capacity showed up. It was obviously a BIOS limitation.
 
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