Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller Card for WD 80GB

[Pinocchio]

I just bought a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller Card for my WD 80GB hard drive. Before I installed the card, I can at least see 32 GB out of 80 GB, but now all I can see is ONLY 2GB... aye....
What is just happened?
Please help me out... Thank you

p.s. I am using WinXP

 

[Crashman]

I'm using the same card, same drive, same settup! How about that. My guess is the thing is formatted to the wrong partition size, repartition it.

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[Pinocchio]

I see the 2GB space in the Windows XP OS. After I put in the card, Windows XP recognize the card along with the drivers with no problem. I've checked the hardware setting and the card is shown under SCSI section. I can see the Controller Card BIOS is shown as version 2.20.0.14. However, the disk came with the box is the older version so I went to the web site and download another BIOS which is 2.20.0.14 also.

When I use Fdisk to check my 80GB HD, all I see is the 2GB with 100% usage. What a shock! I even went into Windows XP and reformat the HD but it still shown as 2GB.

Please assist me further as soon as possible.
Thank you

 

[Crashman]

In fdisk, delete that 2GB partition, then make a new partition. It should make that new partition full sized.

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[Crashman]

Oh, what I said assumes your version of fdisk is new enough, the version that came with Windows 98SE was new enough, anything newer than that should be too.

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[Pinocchio]

I've tried to fdisk but it's just hanging there and not doing anything...
Basically, I have two drives. The C is 20GB which is recognized no problem in XP and DOS. However, when I went into the fdisk and click 5 try to change the current drive to my G (80GB one), all I see the the black screen with a scentense "Change current Active Drive". Then, it just sit there forever...
What should I do now?

p.s. what if I want to do ALL on my computer over...Will that help?
I mean a fresh start with the BIOS too not just the XP...

HELP HELP HELP...I am so frustracted.....
Thank you

 

[Pinocchio]

Here are the steps I went through:
Under DOS,
Yes to "Do you wish to enable large disk support?"
Select 4, "Display partition information (This is my C drive)
Partion: 1
Status: A
Type: NTFS
Mbytes: 19085
Usage: 100%

Select 5, "Change Current Fixed Disk Drive"
Disk Mbytes Free Usage
1 19093 8 100%
2 32252 30240 6%

Then, 2 to enter fixed disk drive
After all that,
Select 3, "Delete partition or logical DOS drive"

Then, I reboot to get into XP.
All I saw under Disk Managerment is still only 1.96GB unallocated..
So, I went ahead right click to create a "new partition".
After the process, I still see this HD shown as 1.96 GB Health....

What is wrong with my steps?

Please help....
THANK YOU SO MUCH

 

[Crashman]

It sound's like you're using an old version of DOS boot disk with only Fat 16 support. Try downloading a later boot disk from www.bootdisk.com, I suggest the 98SE bootdisk.

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[Pinocchio]

I've download the Win98SE boot disk that you mentioned but XP still not recognize 80GB...
Under Fdisk, I can see the HD only for 32GB but it decrease to only 2GB in XP inside the Disk management...
Any more ideas?

 

[Crashman]

The drive might have a jumper setting to limit the size to 32GB for compliance with older controllers. I think mine does, if I'm not mistaken. You should check the jumper settings on the drive against the jumper diagram on the lid.

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