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IBM ultra100 46gb drive only goes to 32gig

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Fabio

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I have an IBM ultra100 46gb hard drive. But it only shows up as a 32gig hard drive. I have a Duron 600 running at 850 on a asus a7v MB. Do I need to update something somewhere? I got the drive, MB and CPU yesterday.


Thanks,

Fabio
 
I've heard that FDISK stupidly refuses to partition beyond 32GB, but I know there exists a way around it. I had no problems with my 60GB Maxtor because I used Win2000/NTFS. Anybody??
 
Or try Ranish Partition Manager. It's free and likely to be just as powerful as Partition Magic.

Download.com prolly has it listed.

-SUO
 
I read another post somewhere (forget) that said same prob was solved w/ jumper .. misread a jumper, default. Didn't read carefully.
 
You really want a partition that big anyway? The cluster size gets very large (32k?) I think. How about chopping it up a bit? I know everyone has their own ideas about partitioning. I just put in a 30 gig, and did this: C: 3 gig (windows), D: 13 gig (programs), E: 13 gig (data). The reason is that the fastest part of the drive is the outer tracks. With Windows and the swap living there, it will always use the fastest part. Programs are next in the D drive, with bulk storage going at the end in the E drive. I have 4k clusters in c: and 8k in D and E which are much more efficient. An additional benefit is it takes less time to defrag. I usually just do the C and D.
 
Oldfart: Just for my own clarification, so does it work this way: the first partitions you set in something like fdisk will be created on the outside and move their way in? I always thought HDDs were made like CDs, created on the inside -> outer tracks?
 
i had a similar problem when i first got my IBM 45gb...the solution: needed to update my mobo bios. not that it has anything to do with this but my drive died 3 months later :disgust:
 
Well, I tried partition magic but it only shows the one 32gig. If I try to resize there is nothing more then the 32. As fasr as the mobo bios, it is the latest from Asus. Any other ideas?



Fabio
 
OK, I got it. The problem was that the HD has 2 sets of jumpers. One that stops at 32gig due to possible MB imcompatibilities and the other for the full 46gig. I had it set wrong. It's all good now.



Thanks for all the help.


 
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