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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: Dojo on June 19, 2004, 07:57:45 AM

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: Dojo on June 19, 2004, 07:57:45 AM

Hi, i need a little help.  What happend was i decided to move my slave hard drive from my old computer to my new computer,(both xp) the 1st problem i had was the new computer wouldnt boot up so i did a quick seach and it seemed the pin on the back of the hard drive was in the wrong place, (it was 4 from the right i moved it to 3 from the right) ( http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.ph...1&hl=hard+drive (http://\"http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4131&hl=hard+drive\") ) after that it booted up straight away. The next prob i had was it wanted me to format the drive before i could use it so i used easyrecovery to move all my stuff from that drive to my primary drive, after that i did the ntfs format the problem i have run into now is that it only shows 31.49GB when the drive is almost 80GB in total. any1 have any idea's...

Thx Dojo

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: Zedy on June 19, 2004, 03:02:49 PM

The jumper you moved was the one that limited the drive to 32 gig.

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: Dojo on June 19, 2004, 11:03:07 PM

............ Any chance of a little more insight? ie: were a pin (jumper) should be situated on a 80GB maxtor slave harddrive. Or should i just take some random guesses until the computer boots up and shows the full drive, not knowing much on the subject i kinda figured id ask for a little advice before putting my computer at risk by playing about with stuff that i have no knowledge of.

Dojo.

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: Zedy on June 20, 2004, 11:10:23 AM

Maybe a visit to

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http://www.maxtor.com/ would help.
There you can find out all sorts of interesting information about your drive, including what jumpers do what.

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: Guest on July 08, 2004, 02:08:48 AM

Is the slaved drive partitioned? If yes, clear all partitions then create a new active one. Then reformat the drive.

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: CJ on July 08, 2004, 02:14:50 AM

Is the slaved drive partitioned? If yes, clear all partitions then create a new active one. Then reformat the drive. You may email me: justjixEmail Removed.

Title: Slave h/d missing over 40GB
Post by: pwdr01 on March 13, 2005, 02:29:41 PM

There should be a label / sticker on you hard drive with the layout of the jumper's positions. they're usually easy to follow....

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