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300 gig HD problem???
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68b_body
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26. September 2005 @ 14:54 |
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i got a 300 gig western digital hard drive, its an ide drive. my bios recongnizes it as 300 gig, my device manager sees it also, but when i click on my computer its not there just my dvd rom drives and my partitioned 80 gig. why isnt it there??? is it a bad HD?
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26. September 2005 @ 15:49 |
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control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> storage -> disk management -> locate the drive and right click and format it ;)
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68b_body
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26. September 2005 @ 16:32 |
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ok thanks. im formatting it now, but its only showing it at 128 gig. after its done will it be the 300 gig?
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26. September 2005 @ 16:34 |
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Operating system?
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68b_body
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26. September 2005 @ 16:39 |
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xp pro btw and also a big thanks for any help you guys may be ablke to provide
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68b_body
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26. September 2005 @ 17:49 |
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ok i formatted it but it only shows it at 128 gig... how do i get it to show the full capacity of the HD?
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Rosco404
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27. September 2005 @ 07:48 |
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Hmmm...
If you done what flip said through admin tools then dont know why it aint worked... you could try this it Might work...
Goto "My Computer > Right Click your new Hard Drive > Select Fromat > Make sure the file system is set to "NTFS" > Check "Quick format" > Click Start.."
If not try it without the "Quick Format" checked, so it will do a full format....
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Auslander
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27. September 2005 @ 16:48 |
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you need Service Pack 1 installed to recognized drivers larger than 128 GB. do you have this in and functioning?
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27. September 2005 @ 17:17 |
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Auslander,
My O/S recogined my 250GB HDs with no SP installed. I was running a corporate edition of XP Pro w/o SP1 or SP2.
@68b_body,
can you post your system specs?
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Auslander
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27. September 2005 @ 17:20 |
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i think the "corporate edition" part of that explains why it was recognized flip, but i'm probably wrong. *shrugs* i've never used larger then 80 gig drives, so i'm going off what i've seen posted around here before.
yeah, specs would definiately help :D
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27. September 2005 @ 17:23 |
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ya I've been looking. Win98 had a problem with HDs over 130, but I thought XP solved that.
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ddp
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27. September 2005 @ 17:39 |
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xp or some xp versions didn't solve that issue as there is threads on it in this forum & all other topics
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68b_body
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27. September 2005 @ 17:57 |
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i downloaded the WD data lifeguard and used it to format the HD and it worked it reads 279 gigs.
thanks for all the help!
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ddp
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27. September 2005 @ 18:05 |
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no problem, teach & learn
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king85743
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6. October 2005 @ 20:30 |
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Greetings:
A followup - My Dell Dim8250 will recognise my WD 300 Gig HD as a secondary drive, but even after using the 'Data Lifeguard' software to make it a bootable drive (as a 300 G drive), it won't boot from it. The Dell says it doesn't see the drive at all. My Bios is A03. I know that A04 is out, but it doesn't say anything about addressing any hard drive problems. I'm running XP SP2. Going in thru the Admin Tools, it shows as a bootable drive, so all I can figure is the BIOS on the Dell can't handle such a large drive. Am I screwed? Please advise.
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king85743
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7. October 2005 @ 00:17 |
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As a followup to my followup - I updated to the A04 BIOS and that didn't help. I tried each combination in turn for the boot drive (including as a single drive, and as master with a slave; with & without the cable select and even the alternate jumper settings...).
Is there any chance that it's just a window's quirk and I need to run something to *really* make it a bootable drive?
Still looking for hints...
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Rosco404
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7. October 2005 @ 01:24 |
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Set the 300gb as your main drive (master) then put the XP CD in and boot from it on startup, let xp setup go.....
You have tried a fresh install of xp on the 300gb wright?
smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast - Ace This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7. October 2005 @ 01:25
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king85743
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8. October 2005 @ 16:52 |
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Greetings:
After trying all sorts of stuff, here is what worked.
-initial steps: install as slave, use WD 'data lifeguard' to partition and format and copy old drive
-booted off xp cdrom & went to the recovery console
-did a 'chkdsk /r' (took forever!)
-did a 'fixboot'
-rebooted and it worked just fine as a boot drive.
Hope that helps. Other things I did which didn't seem to help (but might be necessary)
-updated bios (dell a04 for dimension 8250)
-tried various updated fdisk routines on various bootable disks from various sites) as 'fdisk /mbr'
-cable select switch on the WD drive (presently on, haven't tried to boot the system without it)
-various alternate jumper settings from WD docs & website
Thanks for the ideas (from this and many other threads).
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Rosco404
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9. October 2005 @ 05:54 |
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Glad you got it sorted! : )
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