CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 so my old hard drive crapped the bed and i baught a new one, seagate 300 gig 7200 rpm 8mb Serial ATA-150 and its my master, i got it all working reinstalled windows and its only showing me that i have 127 gigs left on my hard drive...and im more than sure windows system files only take up about 2 gigs worth... so where the heck is my other 270 gigs at?!? Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 ....make sure your bios recognizes the hard drive in its original size - some motherboards will not do so without having their bios re-flashed Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 i have never delt with bios before really...how can i check up on that? Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 and....also, i dont know what the situation with seagate drives is, but some maxtor drives have jumpers in the back that will allow you to use lets say a 3rd, half or full capacity of the hard drive....if the seagate drive has such a thing with jumpers, make sure it is set up correctly Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 everything is set up right, i just dont get how i can get that other 270 out of the hard drive... Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 you can access your bios by pressing the delete key as soon as you restart your computer and it starts booting up - sometimes it is the F10 key...try few different ones, but those are the ones most common - once you are in bios, look through some settings and make sure it is displaying your hard drive in the right size - if even bios doesnt recognize it as a 300 some gb hard drive, than you either have to re-flash the bios, or set up the jumpers on the hard drive (if any) Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 hwo do i 're-flash' and what do you mean by jumpers? all si use is the power supply and serial ATA cable. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 oh...nvm...didnt pay attention to it being a sata hard drive...my bad !!!!!! Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 its fine but what is re-flashing and how do i do it? Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/biosflash1.html this is a guide to flashing bios ..... btw, what motherboard do you have ? it is kind of wierd that it will not show you the entire capacity of the hard drive as its supposed to be - most newer motherboards will not do that.... Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 .....also, what version of windows are you running Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 windows xp, and how can i check what kind of mother board i have Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gib4500 Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 do you have the service packs installed. There was some kind of glitch or something that windows xp had i heard about if you didn't have at least service pack 1 installed it would only show up with like 127gb. maybe i don't know what i'm talking about but i thought i read that before. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 i dont have a valid xp cd key so i cant dl updates, where can i get service pack 2 and stuff Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 well...if that might be the issue - your best solution is to partition the hard drive into several partitions and make it easier for yourself Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 thats exactly what i was thinking, but doesnt that mean a format? Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 no...you do not need to reformat if you partition your hard drive...but you do, however need to format the new partitions, most likely ntfs for your everyday needs - your windows install wont be affected Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 hmm, man i hate being stupid with computers. this is going to be an adventure trying to get this to work Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php I use this software - it is free....just burn the image to a CD and boot from a CD - it is very easy to use and you shouldnt have problems Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 I would suggest making 4-5 different partitions....maybe one for games, one for music, one for backups and so on...you get the idea Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSauce Posted January 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 well i just messed with it with the disk it came with and it is telling me i cannot partition this drive because its my boot drive aka the one wiht windows installed on it. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 do you have aim ? contact me: disturbed6dws Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raistlin666 Posted January 26, 2006 CID Share Posted January 26, 2006 Actually I got almost the same hard drive and it did that to me too. But my Cousin works at CompUsa and he fixed it for me. He said it was an easy fix (for him) (not me) but i use it as storage not thee master. not helping am i? Sorry Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/10788-new-hard-drive/#findComment-112832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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