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Don't want "Dynamic Drive Overlay"

Discussion in 'Processors and Motherboards' started by charvey, Jan 25, 2006.

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  1. charvey Newcomer, in training

    Anyway, I used the Seagate Tools CD to install the 120GB HD and let it format 1 partition @ 120 GB. However, it added the Dynamic Drive Overlay. Even BIOS shows it as a 32 or 33 GB drive. I thought DDO was a trick for BIOS limitations....it did this when I installed it on an ancient computer with an Award BIOS. This is a new ASUS K8N-E. My questions are: Is DDO being installed because of a BIOS limitation or because I'm going to run Win 2K? How can I format it manually to avoid the DDO? (I used the 'Custom' format option in Seagate Tools, and it still added the DDO) . I'm also seeing the message "NTLDR missing". Couldn't find any 'Help' with that.
  2. Nodsu Newcomer, in training

    If your brand new BIOS detects the incorrect drive size (you did set the drive to be auto-detected in BIOS, right?), then there is more to it than the DDO -
    1) the Seagate utility must have changed something in the drive's logic to make it report its size differently. You can only undo that with Seagate utilities.
    2) There is a jumper on the drive that limits the thing to 32GB
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