Re: detection of correct sized hard drive

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From: Nathan McNulty (newsgroups_at_msn.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:03:27 -0800

That motherboard is not that old, so it should see drives over 32 GB. I
would recommend updating the BIOS because Windows will not detect the
drive size as larger than the BIOS detects it unless you use a Dynamic
Drive Overlay which can get pretty complicated.

Now if you formatted the drive FAT32 with Windows XP, that is the
largest you can make a partition as FAT32 (with Windows XP) and I would
hihgly recommend deleting that partition and formatting the whole thing
as NTFS. That may be where your space has gone, but that doesn't
explain why the BIOS only sees 32 GB.

-----
Nathan McNulty

post@kristiankrogh.dk wrote:
> Hi
>
> A new hard drive, Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB, is being detected by
> my bios (motherboard Elitegroup K7S5A, but only with appr. 32GB. Same
> thing in windows drive administration - only 32GB.
>
> Is it absoluttely necessary that the bios detects it properly or can I
> "fix" this problem in windows (XP Pro, sp2)?
>
> I have tried all sorts of both auto detect and user set up in the bios
> but I am not able to change the size of the hard drive.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Kristian

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