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New system, old hard drive - computer wont see the HD as a master and incorrect size!

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TriggerHappy101

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I just got my new PC together yesterday.

eVGA 7800GT
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
2 Gigs of PC 3200 2-3-2-5
One, 160 gig barracuta Segate 7200 RPM drive (ATA - not SATA) (took this from my last PC, worked fine when I used it on there.)
EPoX nForce4 Ultra (939) EP-9NPA+Ultra


Well, its acting really weird. If I have the jumper set to "Master" my bios and OS will only see the drive as 32GB. If I go into BIOS with the jumper set like this - it sees the drive as a slave drive (even though its setup as a master.) The bios also reports it as a 32gb drive. If i set the jumper to "slave" the bios and OS sees the drive as a 136gb drive. It still sees it as a slave in the bios. If I set the drive to "cable select" it sees my drive as the full 160GB. It still however sees it as a slave.

Also I should note is that in the bios the drive isnt know by a name - just a series of numbers and letters - is that normal?

Here is some trouble shooting I have done:

Checked pins
Tried different cables
Tried Unpluging all other drives
Tried different IDE connection on motherboard
Tried scandisk
Tried spinrite 5.0 but it wont detect my HD for some reason? (I am using a boot from CD utility - not from floopy.)

Here are some things im gonna try:

Different IDE drive
A SATA drive
A different cable
Erasing the CMOS


Does ANY one know WTF is going on! 🙁 I want to play FEAR.

 
um, you give no information on what you did to the old drive to prepare for install and during install of O/S in new PC.
 
Hi, Go to the Drive Maker's site and look up the jumpering for that model. Some drives have real weird jumpering including one to reduce the physical size of the drive.
Good Luck, Jim
 
I deleted the partions and re created it. Then formated it. But that shouldnt matter right? Being that BIOS should STILL see the HD at its capacity - not by partitions.

 
Originally posted by: JimPhelpsMI
Hi, Go to the Drive Maker's site and look up the jumpering for that model. Some drives have real weird jumpering including one to reduce the physical size of the drive.
Good Luck, Jim
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Eggh.... I only see one jumper on the HD. And thats for master/slave/cable select.

 
Originally posted by: TriggerHappy101
Originally posted by: JimPhelpsMI
Hi, Go to the Drive Maker's site and look up the jumpering for that model. Some drives have real weird jumpering including one to reduce the physical size of the drive.
Good Luck, Jim
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Eggh.... I only see one jumper on the HD. And thats for master/slave/cable select. And that doesnt explain why the size of the drive is chaning when i change between them.
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im pretty sure you can use a USB drive. I used a floppy, but technically you dont need either if you use the utility. Its still a good idea to make the rescue disk.
 
umm i think its called magicBIOS, it was on the NVIDIA disk I think. I can't check atm (I'm at work). It automatically connects to the net and searches for an updated bios. Still, it sounds to me like you have a partition on there. If you boot from the Windows cd and go into setup does it show any partitions on the drive?
 
Originally posted by: jmdeathsquad
umm i think its called magicBIOS, it was on the NVIDIA disk I think. I can't check atm (I'm at work). It automatically connects to the net and searches for an updated bios. Still, it sounds to me like you have a partition on there. If you boot from the Windows cd and go into setup does it show any partitions on the drive?
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I installed windows on it when it was at the 32gb size. I booted up partation magic 8 and it still showed the whole drive to be 32gb(not just the partition). I also used windows disk managment.

So I used paration magic again to merg the rest of the unallocated space when i set the drive to cable select (when it saw all 160gb capacity.)


 
I think you have the jumper in the wrong spot. See here..there is a limit capacity setting, which will limit the drive to 32gb..sounds to me like thats you exact problem..

EDIT: the position of that setting might be differant for your drive, but you didn't give the exact model number..
 
Have you got the drive connected to the end connector on the ide cable and got the right way round? There should be 2 connectors on the drive end of the cable and for master it should be the very last connector. Also tried swapping the cable out for another?
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
I think you have the jumper in the wrong spot. See here..there is a limit capacity setting, which will limit the drive to 32gb..sounds to me like thats you exact problem..

EDIT: the position of that setting might be differant for your drive, but you didn't give the exact model number..
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🙂 Thanks! You fixed it. I didnt even notice that it had that jumper setting. Everything works now.

Thanks man.
 
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