SOS1971 Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 Just a couple of days ago I purchased a 250gb hardrive and was intending on using it for music,videos along with my OS..I had conflicts with XP using that size hardrive so I went back to my 80gb for the OS and and the 250gb for music,etc...I reformatted the the 250gb hardrive with FDISK and I think I made a big mistake by using it...Now my 250gb is only seeing about about 40 megs is there anyway to get the hardrive back to full health...If this makes sense to anyone give me some clues on how to fix it .... Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 Hello SOS1971..... Welcome to TMN. What brand H.D. ? Did it come with a utility disk ? If not, you should be able to download a utility from the manufacturers website, and use that to format with or without partitions to it's original size. Just remember you need SP1A or SP2 installed on WinXP to recognize the larger drive. If you want to use the new drive to run Windows from, you would want to make a partition like 50 Gig. or whatever up to 137 Gig. and install XP on that then put the SP1a or 2 patch, then you could format the D: drive from Windows and use that for all your files. Good luck.........MYRIAGON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOS1971 Posted July 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thanks for the reply MYRIAGON....It's a 250gb Samsung I'm running XP sp2...Here's the real kicker I just exchanged it for a new HD and this one doesn't show up in my computer but does on boot and in disk management and it's still only seeing 40megs....What did I mess up? I tried resetting my cmos and still no change! Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 some hard drives have a number of pins in the back that have to be shorted out accordingly - i have a samsung hard drive, and it was only seeing 40GB out of 80GB - when i shorted out the correct pins in the back, it saw the full size ...that is most likely the problem here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 have you tried reformating the drive. if not do it again but dont use fdisk, use the windows xp cd to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 some hard drives have a number of pins in the back that have to be shorted out accordingly - i have a samsung hard drive, and it was only seeing 40GB out of 80GB - when i shorted out the correct pins in the back, it saw the full size ...that is most likely the problem here I agree..... Assuming it's an IDE H.D.D. this is what I found for jumper settings, notice there is a general pin setting and a 32GB. max setting. Hope that helps........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki123 Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 You might wanna check out the bios configuration too, ive come across some motherboards that lets you choose how much of the hard drive you want to use (in MBs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOS1971 Posted July 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 12, 2006 I got it taken care of folks...I reinstalled everything on the new 250gb(master) and the old 80gb(slave) and transferred my files and everything is cool...Thanks for the help Admins you can clse this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 12, 2006 CID Share Posted July 12, 2006 I got it taken care of folks...I reinstalled everything on the new 250gb(master) and the old 80gb(slave) and transferred my files and everything is cool...Thanks for the help Admins you can clse this thread good, nice to here you got it fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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