ANyone have Amazingly hard to find software?

[RayXmen]

Please help...

I have a fujitsu mpc3084at that got messed up. Somehow it got changed to 64 heads and 63 cyl... so I get only about 2 gigs.
When originally it is 16 heads and 63 sectors resulting in 8.4 gigs.

I got the fujitsu's ontrack program but it doesn't let me re format with different arrangements of heads and cylinders. Does anyone have a program that can reformat the hard drive to its o.g. settings? I've Tried Partition Magic 7, but it also doesn't let me change the heads and cylinders. I dont know if i'm explaining myself correctly... but I haven't been able to find this program.

I can't seem to find it anywhere! Ne one know what i'm talkin about?

Thanks for reading...

 

[HalfCrazy]

This is just a shot in the dark. But I would check the bios setting for that hdd maybe it got changed some how. It's worth checking if you did not do it all rdy.

 

[RayXmen]

Checked it... there isn't much to check. The LBA is on...

 

[piasabird]

you should be able to reset sectors and heads manually in the BIOS. This may cause you to have to redo the partitions and format the drive. I am not so sure.

 

[Gunbuster]

Some HDDs have a "limit to 2 gig jumper", might want to check for that

 

[kd7fhd]

I'm not sure what you are talking about, but piasabird is correct in telling you to check the hard drive settings in your cmos.

As for partitioning, try RANISH

 

[RayXmen]

I've been trying different settings in bios... but the hard drive is being recognized as 2 gigs no matter what program I use. Ontrack or bios, or partition magic. It's not just the bios that is seeing this limit. My brother installed win2k and freebsd right after the other ... that might have had an effect on the format. Is there no program that lets you set the format for the amount of cylinders per head? I swear i had a program like this before... a couple years ago...

 

[RayXmen]

BUMpity...bump

 

[bocamojo]

Check out this guide:

Link

There's a link in there to Fujitsu DiskManager.

 

[RayXmen]

Alright... its not the bios, or os, or anything else... because I used a 40 gig hard drive and its running fine. THe computer recognizes all 40 gigs. I guess this program is really rare. I'm gonna have to contact fujitsu. It's this hard drive... I tried it on another system and it also reads it as only 2.1 gigs or something.

If anyone has any info on any hard drive utility that might fix this format... you are cool~! haha. Thanx for your inputs guys.

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Some HDDs have a "limit to 2 gig jumper", might want to check for that