Author Topic: HD recognition issue (Read 258 times)

Scrap · « **on:** February 10, 2006, 01:40:41 PM »

Using an ASUS A8N-E with a Hitachi Deckstar 7200 RPM HD.

For some reason the MB will see that this is a 250gig HD in the BIOS, but when I go to partition and load Windoze... it tells me I only have 131070 MB of space to partition!?!?!?!?! Any ideas on what is causing this?

*HD is my primary SATA device and only HD in the PC.

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2006, 01:52:17 PM »

Here is a guess.

First, are you trying to install windows to boot from that drive?

If so, does windows setup see the correct harddrive size?

If not, when you boot from the cd and go into setup, you will see an option to hit F6 to load sata drivers. Make sure you get those drivers from the harddrive cd and place them onto a floppy before you do this.

Scrap · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:04:50 PM »

The HD didn't come with any CDs. However, the MB did. Would the SATA drivers be on the MB disk?

Scrap · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:31:40 PM »

pffffffffffftt! how ghey is this (from the Hitachi documentation):

Ghosth · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2006, 03:21:05 PM »

Don't know about Hitachi, but with a Western Digital I can run their setup utilitys. Partition it into 2 or more logical drives before starting windows. Thus getting around the bios/chipset problem thats limiting it to 137gig.

But then what I know about modern SATA drives would fit into a bottle cap.

Best of luck finding a fix!

JTs · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2006, 05:47:25 PM »

yes the sata drivers are on the m/b disc. do you still have and ide hard drive hooked up? good ole windows might be seeing this as your first drive.

Kev367th · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2006, 09:43:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Scrap
pffffffffffftt! how ghey is this (from the Hitachi documentation):

Its a quirk with larger drives, most BIOS'es will only see them up to 137gb.

Once you have installed Windows you have access to the remaining capacity.
Just use the 'disk manager' to create a secondary partition that is the whole size of the remaining space. Then create logical drive or drives the size you need them.

For Windows 2000 you may have to enable 48bit LBA
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/en-us