Only seeing 131gig of 250gig drive

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:06 pm

Either my mobo (Asus A7N8X) does not support a full 250gig drive or I'm missing a setting somewhere. When formatting in W2K it only sees 131 of the 250gigs.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:55 pm

2x things...
1) Latest BIOS...so that your motherboard recognizes it
2) Win2K...early versions didn't see past 138 gigs...service pack that bad boy. If I remember back that far...I think SP3 is what added the larger part recognition. Regardless..you should apply the latest SP..which is sp4..and continue with all the rest of your Windows updates.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:00 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:If I remember back that far...

It's NOT that long ago.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:04 pm

SP4 installed. I'm not sure of the exact bios version but I'm pretty sure it's updated. I'll take another check though.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:20 pm

I checked things out and there is 1 bios version higher. I'm using 1006. The thing is, is that the bios "does" see the full 250 gig???

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:47 pm

And in disk management?

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:47 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:And in disk management?

127gig

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:50 pm

Im pretty sure that board supports 137+ drives.

What does the bios say its size is?

EDIT: I read your post above wrong.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:54 pm

Easto wrote:127gig

Any additional space? Unused? Unpartitioned?

lewis · Post by **lewis** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:40 pm

I have the Deluxe version of that board using the 1007 bios and its sees my 200gig drives just fine.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:18 pm

I went back and reformatted with my W2K disk thinking I may have overlooked something. During the reformatting process, before starting the reformat, when it shows you what partitions you have it looked a little different than I've seen before. Usually it shows you 2 lines, one for each partition, whether they are formatted or not. This time is looked like...

(as best as I can remember)

C: Formatted 131***mb (127***mb free)

Once I deleted the partition and started over again it still only showed 131***mb.

I'm thinking that I may have to format and partition this with a dos disk first?

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:19 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Any additional space? Unused? Unpartitioned?

No

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:21 pm

Easto wrote:I went back and reformatted with my W2K disk thinking I may have overlooked something. During the reformatting process, before starting the reformat, when it shows you what partitions you have it looked a little different than I've seen before. Usually it shows you 2 lines, one for each partition, whether they are formatted or not. This time is looked like...

(as best as I can remember)

C: Formatted 131***mb (127***mb free)

Once I deleted the partition and started over again it still only showed 131***mb.

I'm thinking that I may have to format and partition this with a dos disk first?

Your win2k disk doesnt have the service packs on it?

Maybe slipstream?

you could fdisk from a dos disk, but i dunno if 2k will see it as 250 if its only seeing 131 anyway.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:47 pm

You don't need a DOS disk...matter of fact I don't like using any DOS based utilities to manage hard drives for WinNT...everything you need is available in NTSetup when you boot from the NT CD using NTs native disk management utilities.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:51 pm

http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglba.htm

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:45 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglba.htm

^^ Thanks, it's now seeing the complete drive. I do have 104gb of unallocated space on it. When I right click and it asks to create a partition type which should I chose? Primary or Extended? I have the OS already loaded on C:.

YARDofSTUF wrote:Your win2k disk doesnt have the service packs on it?

Maybe slipstream?

Yeah, I do have it slipstreamed to SP2 but I think I'll create a slipstreamed SP4 version later tonight if I have the time. I'm hoping that does the trick and I can then format the complete drive during an install.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:13 pm

Yah SP2 is too old..it will not see past that limitation.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:19 am

Got it.

I'd like to thank everyone for their help.