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western digital hdd incorrect size reported

I recently bought a western digital 60gb hard drive. I installed it as the slave on my primary chain with another drive, a maxtor, as primary. My CMOS seems to report the drive as 32gb capacity. Windows (win2k server) disk management reports it as 7.88 gb. Even when I format it for 60gb, ntfs from the disk that came with the hard drive, win2k prompts me to format again and reports it as 7.88 in size.

Does anyone know whats going on?

thanks in advance,
-paul.

Wakeup

What kind of hardware are you running currently? Motherboard and CPU? And IDE controller types if you know them.

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paelo

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I have a 1.7gb P4 but its got one of those all-in-one SiS motherboards. I had the drive initially auto configured in cmos and then i changed it to LBA with no effect.

I will try some of your suggestions and get back to you bljak.

Wakeup

It is a possibility that the drive is defective? Also if you have access to another computer, see if you can connect the drive to another and format it or see what it is detected as on the other, just to make sure it is not your 1.7gig p4 causing the issue?

paelo

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Turned out to be a jumper problem so i'll accept bljak's answer for pointing me in the right direction.

msa2003

It seems to be a BIOS issue. Try to download the latest version of BIOS and the LATEST VERSION OF ULTRAATA MINIPORT DRIVER from your motherboard's manufaturer.

If this will not help maybe the best way is to replace IDE controller. There are two ways: to change motherboard or to add external UltraATA controller like (Promise FastTrack is a good one).

I also agree with WakeUp that there is good to check first if the drive is working.

msa2003

Sorry, I posted the previous massage too late because of a problems with downloading pages from EE.