80gb showing up a 30gb?

[Sniper82]

Have a Seagate 80gb 5400RPM. Anyway I went to partion it and it showed up as 79xxx or something so I hit enter to make 1 big partion. Anyway in Windows XP pro its showing up as 1 partion and only 31gb of free space 64mb used. What could be the problem? Drive kick the can?

BTW I tried going back to partion it to see what it shows and now its only letting me make a partion of 31gb. Its like the rest disapeared.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Trying to format as FAT32? 2000/XP will only format FAT32 as 32 GB even though they will use FAT32 drives up to at least 130 GB once formatted.

I forget whether I used a manufacturer utility disk or Acronis Partition Expert to format the 120 GB drive I have in my W2K sever as D:, but either should work.

 

[meltdown75]

initially i shyed away from responding (initially... lol u posted like 8 mins ago ) because it seems too obvious & easy, but your motherboard bios are flashed to the latest & greatest right? also you are using NTFS right.

 

[Sniper82]

formatted with NTFS and have a Abit NF7-S with latest BIOS. I tried partioning with Seagate software but it does the same thing.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Only other thing I can think of is maybe you have the drive jumpers set for compatibility with old mobo/BIOS, many drives have jumpers for this which downgrade capactiy to 32 GB.

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Only other thing I can think of is maybe you have the drive jumpers set for compatibility with old mobo/BIOS, many drives have jumpers for this which downgrade capactiy to 32 GB.

I'll look into it. Hope your right though.

 

[Sniper82]

Yeah that was it . Thx alot for the help. I was trying to put the jumpers on with it in the case and couldnt see the lable on the drive good. I didnt even know you could do that.

Learn something new everyday. Thx again.

 

[Lighthous]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Only other thing I can think of is maybe you have the drive jumpers set for compatibility with old mobo/BIOS, many drives have jumpers for this which downgrade capactiy to 32 GB.

Yep, check the jumpers on the back of your Seagate. You may have accidentally placed a jumper on the 32GB capacity cap.


edit:
Doh, you beat me... lol