320GB Seagate only rec. 132GB.

[Savage1701]

I have a Seagate 320GB ATA 100 drive connected to the primary IDE channel on an Asus P4-C800E Deluxe Motherboard. I have never encountered this before on the other C800E Deluxes I have built, but this board will only recognize the drive as about 132GB. Windows XP Pro installer will only recognize it at the same capacity under NTFS. I suspect this is drive-related since this machine will recognize a 250GB USB drive just fine. Is there anything I can do to get my OS to recognize the full capacity of this drive? When it was in a USB enclosure my other CPU's recognized it as a 320GB drive, so I'm not sure what's up. Could it be my IDE cable? I'm not getting any delayed-write errors which is what has happened before when I used a 40-conductor where I needed an 80-conductor cable. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Nodsu]

What size does the BIOS recognise the drive as?

 

[Savage1701]

48 LBA - I set it manually thinking it was not recognizing the boundary.

 

[Nodsu]

Disk size is measured in gigabytes

If you forced LBA in BIOS, then the next step is to make sure it is enabled in the OS. The install CD - is it XP, XP SP1 or XP SP2?

 

[Savage1701]

No need; for some reason between last night and this morning it decided to recognize the rest of the drive. No clue. Maybe a change in the lunar phase?

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Maybe a change in the lunar phase?

That would be either a week too early or a week too late.

 

[Tedster]

https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic36678.html

 

[Savage1701]

It was probably a service pack thing. I was using an older version of XP Pro installer but after SP2 and about a thousand updates installed themselves the rest of the drive space was available. Thanks.

 

[Tedster]

that's what the FAQs are for! You're welcome.