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320gb Hardrive Need Help

1249 Views 11 Replies 6 Participants Last post by ~Candy~, Jul 13, 2005

Discussion Starter · Jul 6, 2005

Hey guys, my friend just received a 320gb hard drive from his friend. We know that the bios needed to be upgraded so he bought a Ultra ATA/133 PCI CARD with drivers but his computer doesn't recognize the entire drive, maybe a third of it. Anyone have any suggestions on this?

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Elvandil

· #2 · Jul 6, 2005

What machine/mainboard is it? What operating system and service pack level? What card?

We really don't have much to go on here.

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Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 6, 2005

He is running XP Pro, Service pack 2,
CPU=Intel Celeron 1100MHz
BUS SPEED= 100MHz
MAINBOARD=M786MR
System=VIA VT8601
BIOS=Award 6.00 PG
MEMORY=512mb

Ultra ATA/133 PCI CARD from COMPUSA

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Rockn

· #4 · Jul 6, 2005

You need to disable the PC's on-board IDE controller in the BIOS and use the BIOS on the card to set up the drive.

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Discussion Starter · #5 · Jul 6, 2005

I disabled thr Onboard FDD Controler. What is the FDD Controler and was that the one I was supposed to disable? They also on On Chip something but didn't touch them.

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Discussion Starter · #6 · Jul 6, 2005

I found out what it is. Floppy Drive Disk. Still not able to find the on-board IDE controller tho....Hmmm....

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13.-Suprman

· #7 · Jul 6, 2005

what type of harddrive is it?

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crjdriver

· #8 · Jul 6, 2005

If the drive is connected to the controller card, there is no need to disable the mb ide.

Some things to check.

1 Does the drive have a size limiting jumper and is this jumper being used?

2 Some controller cards need to have their bios and or drivers updated in order to "See" large hd. I have a promise card around here somewhere that this was required in order to "See" drives larger than 137 gig.

3 Check the card mfg's web site for updated drivers / bios.

4 What does disk management show for the drive? Is there any unallocated space?

Just my opinion, however I would take the compusa brand card back and install a promise or highpoint controller card.

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~Candy~

· #9 · Jul 13, 2005

Out of curiosity, since you haven't posted back, were you able to get this problem solved?

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inuyasha320

· #10 · Jul 13, 2005

is the paritioning correct.

is the cluster size correct.

if it is too large, you can waste a lot of space. but i never seen a bad cluster size do that.

try the hard drive on another computer

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crjdriver

· #11 · Jul 13, 2005

AcaCandy said:
Out of curiosity, since you haven't posted back, were you able to get this problem solved?

Good to see you back.

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~Candy~

· #12 · Jul 13, 2005

crjdriver said:
Good to see you back.

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