new 120! sees as 30! Help!

behr66behr66
edited December 2003 in Hardware
I got a new 120 Gig OEM and i neeeeed it for work/school.
though, it only see's itself as a 30 gig.
i'm in Windows XP and dual boot 2k,
I've gone through the disk manager and tried all i can and i can't get it workin!
Can anyone let me in on what i am doing wrong?

Low level format? How do i do that?

Initialize? What? How do i do that?

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    What is the make and model of the drive?
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2003
    i am trying to remember, but i think its maxtor. they have this little jumper on the back. if i recall, its black, and basically what it does, is it makes it register as a 33 gig drive or something like that. it confused me too when i got mine (more than a year ago) and finally i just saw it in the manual. hope that helps (and that your problem is as simple as that) . . .
  • SteTheDudeSteTheDude Rochdale, England!
    edited November 2003
    Or if your unlucky you might have a 30gb hard drive with the wrong sticker on :)
  • rapturerapture
    edited November 2003
    I've seen Deathstars with that 30gig clip option, this could be a jumper problem.. Usually is with hard drives :P
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Right, that's why I'm trying to find out what this dude's HD is..... IBM/Hitachi drives have a setting called "32gb Clip" which limits the HD for older BIOS' and motherboards....

    I'm thinking either the 32gb clip is enabled or he got ripped off and was sold a "120gb" which is actually a "30gb" drive....
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    do a full format and see what it reads as
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    He can't do a full format, Gnome.... He can't even get the drive to come up in Disk Manager.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Ok then He is fuzzed!!! read the drive label and see what it says. They might have pulled the wrong one. What is the mobo? and what is the drive? as prime said it could have the clip enabled
  • antthisantthis Bowling Green ky
    edited December 2003
    On a note WD has a problem of misslableing their hds and sometime you get luckly and get more then what you pay for Thanks best buy dumbass
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    It could also be an old MOBO that is only registering the drive as 30gig....MOBO's have limits to on what drive sizes they will detect. He may have to use the drive software (if it came with any) to allow access to the larger drive size. Or flash/drivers for his mobo if that's an option.
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