I gotta be doing something wrong...

[Viperoni]

So here's the scoop, I have my main rig (AMD 64, A8N-E, etc) running WinXP.
I have 2 HD's, a 160gb Samsung SV1604N and a 250gb Seagate 7200.9 formatted in NTFS.

I want to transfer them to my server, an IBM xSeries x232, dual p3 1.13's, IBM Serveraid 4L, 6x 18.2gb Cheetah's running Raid 5EE, triple redundant PS's, etc.

When I connect the HD's to the x232, the BIOS detects them as 6.4gb or something ridiculously small, but Windows Server 2003 Enterprise detects them in device manager and even shows them as drivers with the correct size in Disk Management, but it appears as though they are not partitioned.

I put them back into my WinXP machine, and they work fine.
I used the same UDMA66 cable as I had in my WinXP machine, no problem.

EDIT: Server 2k3 even showed me the drive's name, but no partition or drive letter.
Also, they're runnign as basic drives, not dynamic in WinXP.

Any suggestions?

 

[greylica]

Yes, try to update your bios, or try to force LBA on the Bios itself, some bigger HDDS can be detected wrong if your bios tries to do an CHS probe before atempt to use LBA. You can try to force LBA in the bios.