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jedge78   04-29-2002 at 01:12:41 AM

I have two hd's on my system, a 40 gig set to master and a four gig set to slave...there are no probs with the 40 gig
The four gig however will only format in windows xp to 1.84 gig...i have low level formatted it...i have deleted all of the partition info and redone it but nothing seems to work...xp always partitions it to 1.84 gig...anyone have any ideas?


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jedge78 on 04/28/02 07:25 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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jihiggs   04-29-2002 at 06:54:45 PM
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what does it report the free space as before you format?

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jedge78   04-29-2002 at 10:17:12 PM
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both fdisk and the bios recognise that there is four gigs of space on the drive...windows however, refuses to access the drive until it is formatted and when i do format it, it formats to 1.84 gigs

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jihiggs   04-29-2002 at 11:14:52 PM
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right click my computer, click manage. now click disk management. what does it say in there?

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jedge78   04-30-2002 at 01:47:53 AM
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its says that it is healthy and everything looks normal...once again however, it says that it is only 1.84 gig...is there anything else i should try?

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jedge78   04-30-2002 at 03:40:23 AM
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also...i can format the drive to 4 gigs when i use a boot disk to boot into win98 however xp refuses to use the drive formatted in 98...it forces me to format it in xp and xp will only format ot 1.84

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jihiggs   05-02-2002 at 03:25:54 AM
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after you format it with the boot disk, you go into win xp and it tells you it needs to be formated?

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jihiggs   05-04-2002 at 03:50:50 AM
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sounds to me like your screwed, sorry hehe. i got no other ideas.

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Zoron   05-04-2002 at 11:03:44 PM
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LOL

Sounds almost like the drive wants to be formatted out to FAT16...

One other thing you can check... make sure LBA mode is enabled in the BIOS... that's the only other thing I can see that could cause the trouble. Believe it or not, some hard drives have to be manually adjusted to use LBA because the BIOS doesn't detect it properly.

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