new harddrive problem

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jp831

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i recently bought a western digital hard drive with 120GB and 7200RPM, when i installed it as my 2nd master drive it only gives me 31.8GB, any help on how to fix this? i have read the manual and it said to upgrade my BIOS but it stayed the same, any help would be appreciated
 
u have to reformate the whole drive into ntfs or fat32 (u decide), once my drive had the capacity of 1.5 gigs and then i formated it to ntfs and it was ok, the problem occured cuz the whole drive wasn't formated into 1 system file

1 hdd has to be on master and another on slave
 
thanks for the info, but when i do put my other hard drive as a slave, my CD drive has no where to go but the second master slot, (i think im doing sometin wrong with the cd drive) and when i do put it in the second master slot it doesnt work, is it sometin im doing wrong? is there anyway to leave my 2nd hard drive on the 2nd master slot and get the 120gb? my hard drive is stuck on 31gb, and i also tried formating it
 
you have 2 ribbons... Ribbon 1 has a master drive (your main hard drive with the os on it) and a slave (which can be the cdrom or another hd. Then you have Ribbon 2 which can have another master (be it a cd rom or another hd) and then another slave... As long as you only have one slave and one master per ribbon you will be ok. You can only have 4 devices hooked up.
 
yea i have set up my first ribbon with a hd and cdrom, and the second with my new hard drive
i've tried everything and it still only gives me 31gb instead of the full 120
 
jp831 said:
thanks for the info, but when i do put my other hard drive as a slave, my CD drive has no where to go but the second master slot, (i think im doing sometin wrong with the cd drive) and when i do put it in the second master slot it doesnt work, is it sometin im doing wrong? is there anyway to leave my 2nd hard drive on the 2nd master slot and get the 120gb? my hard drive is stuck on 31gb, and i also tried formating it
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The HDD should work as a master or slave. The same is true for your CD Drive. Anyway let's stick with the new HDD first. Is this being recognized correctly at BIOS (120 gb)? What operating system are you using? How did you format the drive the first time?
 
ku-sama - wuts the jumper limiter? lol

supremo - i formatted it like how filip told me to do into ntfs and my BIOS says its only 31GB too as for my OS it is windows XP
 
jp831 said:
ku-sama - wuts the jumper limiter? lol

supremo - i formatted it like how filip told me to do into ntfs and my BIOS says its only 31GB too as for my OS it is windows XP
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It seems that the BIOS is not properly recognizing the hard drive.

I have not seen jumper limiters for HHD - but check out what ku-sama was saying.

1. Make sure that you have the latest update for your BIOS. What's your motherboard brand and model?
2. In Windows XP, go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management then disk management - check if you can find the missing disk space there.
 
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