Huge Hard Drive Problem

[scottwile]

messed up my harddrive when trying to recover my hp a320n... so i called up hp and they said to format then try the recovery again.. so i poped her out and put it in my other computer as a slave and formatted it.. now it is saying it has only 31 gigs when is should be around 120
how do i get the other 90 gigs back and my harddrive to factory defaults?
:helpsmile:

[4play]

try auto detecting it again in cmos and see if that clears it up. if not try manually entering the size.

[delphin460]

did you put the slave/ master pin back to master

[scottwile]

@ 4play... in bios it still reconizes it as 30 some gigs and does not give you the option to manually put in the size...
@ delphin... its still a slave in the other computer, i'll put ti back in the one it came from and see if it reconizes 120 gigs

[lynx]

Originally posted by scottwile@30 March 2004 - 01:37
@ 4play... in bios it still reconizes it as 30 some gigs and does not give you the option to manually put in the size...
@ delphin... its still a slave in the other computer, i'll put ti back in the one it came from and see if it reconizes 120 gigs

The problem is with the comp's bios - it obviously does not recognise drives above 32GB (a known limitation with some pc's).

You could try looking for a bios update which may solve that problem, or use a WinME boot disk (or aWin2K or XP disk) on your original computer.

[scottwile]

i had it in my old computer so i took it back to my good one and it read 120 gigs, problem solved
thanks boys

[SingaBoiy]

I have accidently made it so my 20 hdd and my 80 gig were both slave. And would register it as being almost a 50 gig hdd.