Re: Installation problem

Hi all, Hi Gazwad:

I was able to finally get the Windows XP installer (and the BIOS as
well) to recognize the full 300 gigs. One of the following or a
combination of them fixed it. Here's what I did:

- Took out the HD and set the jumper cables to master. It was on cable
select.

- Put it back in and ran the Seagate utility and I forgot which one of
the next two steps I did first: 1) prepared and partitioned the disk
and set it to NTFS (270 gig partition and a 30 gig partition), and 2)
the utility let me select a hard drive size - something about setting
the LBA size (?) - it suggested a number different than what I had. The
numbers were something like 6 or 60 million and 5 or 50 million. I had
one of those numbers and the suggested value was the other number. I
accepted the suggested value.

- Booted the computer and went into the BIOS setup. It correctly said
(finally) I had a 300 gig HD (not 30-3 gigs anymore).

- Rebooted and the XP installer said I had two partitions: 270 gigs and
30 gigs.

I suspect it was something with the LBA size? Not sure what it means
but that's my guess. But it could been also the jumper switch or
something. I did try NTFS as my format before (when it did not work) so
I doubt it's the NTFS, but I could be wrong...

But anyway, the point is, it worked, finally! Sorry the details might
be fuzzy but that's the basic idea.

Thanks all.
:)


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One may have to zero fill the drive to take it back to factory specs
then start again.

Where is it storing this 33 gig information, how do I get rid of it,
and how do I make XP install recognize my full 300 gigs. I am using
XP w/SP2.

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I did use the Seagate utility to zero fill my drive. It took over 24
hours to do. Then I tried installing XP, but on the screen where it
told me where I want to install to, it showed the hard drive still at
33 gigs. Thanks.

Some drives have a clip option whereby the setting of a jumper reduces the
available size to 32GB.
Yank all the jumpers off the drive and read the instructions on jumpering,
pay close attention as fucking it up may result in a clipped drive. That is
to say ignore what you think you have done and start from scratch. You may
wish to see if you can set it to (heaven forbid, spit, spit) cable select,
temporarily, to see if the drive is correctly recognisable.

Perhaps you have pitifully old kit and have not bothered to update the BIOS,
perhaps that's why the system is only seeing 32GB. You failed to give any
useful details about anything apart from the make of drive, so almost
anything may be possible.

The other option is that XP will only create 32GB partitions if someone is
stupid enough to elect to use FAT32. Again, you supplied no useable details.
It may be your confusion that is hiding this as a possible cause although
blanking the drive by zero writing it should have properly destroyed any
partition table you may have erroneously set up. BTW you only need to blank
the first few bytes so leaving it running for the time it takes for a ***
is more than adequate should you wish to 'blank' the partition table again.



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