Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: smallz on September 24, 2007, 09:21:30 AM
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HI everyone this is my first time posting here. and i have asked help on many different forums regarding this problem. below is a copy and paste of what my problem is.
I am running windows xp sp2 and it is a seagate 250 gb sata drive.
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Now i am back to square 1.
i used a program called Copywipe to delete my partition to fix the problem but it just made it worse.
now it says i only have a 127gb hard drive when it is suppose to be 250gb(really 233gb)
i installed partition magic on the pc but i cant seem to fix the problem.
I put two pictures in here
one from disk management in partition magic and the other is the the properties for the drive
---here is the chkdsk report --
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
134206978 KB total disk space.
2608544 KB in 9205 files.
2268 KB in 574 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
79882 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
131516284 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
33551744 total allocation units on disk.
32879071 allocation units available on disk.
Press any key to continue . . .
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this could be a condition limitation in your motherboard bios and its age, as hard drives expanded motherboard bios's had to be updated to suit, but some motherboard's and bios's cannot be updated or understand the size geometrics or be updated.
the question is what motherboard, operating system and cpu are you using ?
have you tried the seagate tools for formating this drive ?
there is a version which can run in windows as well as a DOS version which as it has its own operating system, it can be booted from and it then works out with any windows GUI being required
they can be downloaded from here:- http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
you can then use the tools to diagnose any problems and with the "powermax tool" you can format and or partition the drive.
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thanks ill give it a shot. ill never use partition magic again. this i just beeen one BIG headache
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i used the seagate tools thing and did the LONG DST test and everything passed.
i also tried teh seagate for dos program but it does not boot up. after i chagned the boot up order. i am going to try and wipe the whole drive with copywipe.
any other tips on how to fix the problem ?
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i went into the BIOS and it sees the full 250 gb. However when i go into windows xp setup it sees 1 unparition space of 131061MB
the system specs are
Pention 4(r) 3.20 ghz
1 gb ram
seagate/maxtor 250gb sata drive
with NO OS