40 gig hd appears as 7.2 gig in win98.

siberiansun · Post by **siberiansun** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:05 am

This happened at work, we bought 2 external hd's, (i don't know what it's called but you put them in the front in a 5.25" slot).
In win98 they show up correctly as D: but the capacity according to win98 is only 7.2 gig... same results with both 40gig hd's.

Any suggestions please anyone?

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 5:16 am

* check jumpers on HD to see if it has all capacity limit (cylinder limit) disabled
* renew bios for mb and any HD controllers
* check for newest update for 98.
* get newest drivers for your hd controller.

Make sure both your mb/hd controller and 98 recognizes your disk. If your mb/hd controller can properly define you HD, then you can skip the bios fiddling and go straight to updating 98 and drivers.

If that doesn't do the trick... I'll be puzzled. But an unrecognized HD is always puzzling.

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siberiansun · Post by **siberiansun** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 8:54 am

Thanks Ken.

However i turned out that both hd's were partitioned.

Seems a bit strange to me since both were "out of the box" or so they said...
We've got ONE computer store in my town and i'm getting pretty sure they don't know a pc from a microwave.
they once sold me a damaged creative card which they refused to refund.

Well thanks again and whatever you do if you're in Karlskoga Sweden, DO NOT shop at "abc data".

Spring is here!!

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 9:15 am

A harddisk "fresh from manufacturer" is NEVER PARTITIONED. These are definitely used ones. Unusual is also the size. OEMs do usually one big partition ("all of it"). Hmm, strange. This looks very much like return or lower price. Were the partitions formatted? If yes, what filesystem? With Norton sometimes it is possible to restore a FAT32/16 partition and then have a look.
Or, if possible test the drives by copying big files (xcopy) and let the machine run at least 24h and listen for "strange noises". Who knows, could be something wrong with these.