topic Re: hard drive capacity error in Disk

hard drive capacity error

Abrar Hazarika — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:31:27 GMT

I have a Seagate UATA hard drive of 8GB. I didn't use it for last 6 months and now when i tried to use it, the fdisk command shows only 504 MB. Even when I deleted and tried creating new partitions it showed the same 504MB.

Is there any way to bring it back to its original capacity?

Re: hard drive capacity error

Vincent Fleming — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:45:05 GMT

What OS version are you running?

Re: hard drive capacity error

Eugeny Brychkov — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:54:50 GMT

As I remember there were problems with old bioses they did not support large disks. Please check if bios supports this disk. If not, find bios update (if available). Check how it's seen in bios. As Vince mentioned do not use DOS 3.30 or 5.0 fdisk. Take windows NT or 2000 setup disks. What drive is it?
Eugeny

Re: hard drive capacity error

Abrar Hazarika — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:40:13 GMT

The disk isn't loaded with any OS. I used a Win98 bootdisk to start the machine fitted with this drive, so as to load an OS.

Re: hard drive capacity error

Marino Meloni_1 — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:13:04 GMT

Hi
UATA is a Ide hdd, if your 8 gb hdd is see as a 504 Mb, probably the cause is the controller itself, or the Boot disk you are using.
When you start Fdisk, it should ask you for enabling LBA that is the way to manage dig hd,
If the bios of your server or pc do not support this hdd, and is quite old, you need to upgrade it in order to manage thid Hdd.
Option, connect it on another pc and check if capacity is correct
marino

Re: hard drive capacity error

Abrar Hazarika — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:50:02 GMT

I got it right. yeah the bios was old and it didn't support large disks.

I used a new bios(machine) and it worked fine.

I connected the disk as slave to an existing win2000 system and tried from disk manager. The disk is identified ok as blank (unallocated space) but when i tried to partition, the create partition button was disabled.
Is this normal?
Any ideas about this?

Finally i connected it as master and used fdisk to complete my work.

Thanks again.