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Samsung HDD 32Gb Detection problem
Hi,
I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...de_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks |
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"Gameface" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...de_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks You are not going to like this, but it is probably a Bios limitation of your Motherboard, I know my old Asus T2P4's would only see 32 GB of a 40GB drive. Solved that by going to a new motherboard. Cheers Paul |
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You have created a single partition, and formatted it
in FAT32, by the sound of it. Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316505 During Setup You Are Unable to Format a Partition with a File Allocation Table Format http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=301340 On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:01:33 +0100, in Gameface scrawled: Hi, I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...de_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks -- Basic computer maintenance http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html |
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It sounds like the BIOS of your motherboard may be too old to recognize a
harddrive larger than 32MB. You didn't give any details of your motherboard/BIOS to be able to help more. -- DaveW "Gameface" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...de_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks |
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Sorry about that - my motherboard accepts drives bigger than 32Gb, as my
main HDD is a Maxtor 6Y080P0 80Gb HDD - this works fine & is recognised correctly by windows. M/Board - Jetway V266A (uses Via KT266A chipset) BIOS - Award Software Internation, Inc. 6.00 PG 05/10/2002 Hope that helps a bit "DaveW" wrote in message news:S6Ovc.4208$%F2.2582@attbi_s04... It sounds like the BIOS of your motherboard may be too old to recognize a harddrive larger than 32MB. You didn't give any details of your motherboard/BIOS to be able to help more. -- DaveW "Gameface" wrote in message ... Hi, I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...de_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:01:33 +0100, "Gameface"
wrote: Hi, I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...de_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks Did you jumper the drive wrong, that is, put a jumper on the 32GB limit pins instead of the ones you wanted? |
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I'm hoping it the jumpers too... i'm gonna keep messing with these &
hopefully it will show the full 80gb - thnx for advice i'll let you knw how it goes "kony" wrote in message ... On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:01:33 +0100, "Gameface" wrote: Hi, I have 2 HDD's, I have my Samsung SP0802N set as the slave however I am unable to detect it properly in the BIOS. It is a 80Gb HDD however this only appears as 32Gb - also when I boot from windows using my main Master (Maxtor HDD) the Samsung HDD appears as 'RAW' filesystem instead of FAT32 or NTFS. I have entered the BIOS and followed the corrections here at the official samsung site http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...71605421_Insta llGuide_ENGLISH.pdf I have changed the Access mode from 'auto' to 'LBA' in the BIOS, however it still appears as a 32gb drive. I'm doing this because the samsung drive has a ruined windows xp installation (no suprises there) and I need to backup the "My Documents" files for a friend. Can anybody give me any advice on my next step of action. Many thanks Did you jumper the drive wrong, that is, put a jumper on the 32GB limit pins instead of the ones you wanted? |
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Thanks Kony - u was right - managed to find the correct setting eventaully
"kony" wrote in message ... On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:01:33 +0100, "Gameface" wrote: Did you jumper the drive wrong, that is, put a jumper on the 32GB limit pins instead of the ones you wanted? |
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