I have a Segate ST3250624A 250 GB 16MB Buffer Hard Drive and when i go into the disk management, it is show that the is 128 GB Hard Drive. I know better than that because when i start up my computer my IDE controller card shows that it is a 250 GB hard drive. I am running a 2.8 P4 WinXP Pro 1GB Ram ect..... So i dont think that the Bios is the problem. Could some1 please help me with this matter it would be greatly appreciated.
Have u got XP Service Pack 2?? If not then install it coz WinXp doesnt detect much big drives without SP2....
OK, i will make this a little easier to diagnose. Here are the specs of my computer: Dell OptiPlex GX280 Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 With SP2 2.8 GHz P4 W/ HT 1 gig Ram 2x Sony DVD-RAM -- DVD+/- RW -- CDRW (On Onboard IDE) 1x 40 GB SATA Hard Drive (Operating Sysyem) 1 IDE Controller Card W/ The 4 Drives Listed Below on it: 1x 80 GB HD 2x 160 GB HD 1x 250 GB Hard Drive (The one i am having trouble with) All Drives (Except SATA Drive) are set to Cable Select. Need any more info tell me.
OK I found out what the problem was!!!! What i did was uninstalled the "windows" driver and installed the promise drivers that they provided for me. Also i flashed the BIOS on the controller card to the newest one that supported hard drives bidder than 137 GB. That solved my problem. I went to the computer management and then to storage devices, ect.... and it had a unallocated portion of my hard drive, i made it a dynamic hard drive, mounted it, then i made it a basic disk and all of the 232GB was there. (I also done that to the 160 that was showing 128 GB. **NOTE** Before you make a basic hard drive into a dynamic hard drive, transfer all of the files to another hard drive, you will loose all of the data if you dont.) So thanks for all of your guys help and shot out to || DizKiller ||
