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Hey everyone,
I have a ST380013A hard drive (barracuda seagate) and my bios cant detect the full size. Its 80Gb and its only showing 47Gb (51200Mb) in the bios POST screen. I also have a Maxtor 200Gb, and it works just fine, no DDO needed.I've tried everything, from fdisk to the actual software that came with the drive, nothing works.
Also, the drive works fine with the DDO installed, but my setup can't coexist with the DDO. I've removed the DDO, but my BIOS still wont detect the full size.
I've installed the drive in other sytems (even in my server) and it still wont work. So I know it has to do with the drive itself.
Thanks in advance.
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Make sure the jumpers are set properly:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st380013a.html
I don't remember if you tried this in your previous thread but manually set the C/H/S parameters as 16383/16/63 and make sure LBA is enabled.
You may want to try a low level format. I can email you a seagate diskmanager that has that utility.
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All the jumpers are set correctly (Master). I've tried to set the C/H/S, but with no luck. I have not tried to do the low-level format. But I have formated EVERTING, and I've also erased the MBR and then tried to fix it. No luck so far.
I already have the seagate DiskManager, it came with the HD, and I downloaded the newer version too.
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Are you sure it's Ontrack's Disk Manager that came with the drive? I believe they stopped bundling that with new drives years ago. Drives now come with different installation software that doesn't contain a LLF. You can download Ontrack's Disk Manager but they charge for it.
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Seems like overlay software destroys drives, we are in the same camp, look... :-)
http://computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/43827.html
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It's stupid to run Overlay software if you don't need to. If your board has no problem recognizing the full capacity of a 200GB HDD, it will recognize an 80GB HDD. The BIOS should detect the FULL size of the drive. When you install a brand new unformatted HDD, the full capacity will be seen. Formatting has nothing to do with how many MB or GB are detected by the BIOS....that info is read off a chip on the HDD's circuit board.
Make sure you have the jumpers set correctly. Use the diagnostic software that came with the drive...that's what it's for. Check the drive's integrity.
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I've tried everthing!! I can not intall the HD without the DDO, the DiskWizard installs it by itself. This is something I've tryied to fix for ages now.
Im SURE the jumpers are set correctly. The disk are detected correctly when I use DiskDiag for seagate, but everthing else (programs) detect the HD as 51200MB (~47Gb).
Still, im going to perform a low-level format in about 10 min.
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Which LLF are you using? I doubt the seagate software will have one. They'll have a zero-fill. Disk Manager will have both.
Occasionally a LLF will allow the bios to see a drive right. I had an old quantum drive that wasn't being seen right and ran MAXLLF on it. That's an old maxtor low level formatting program and is probably the best. But it was designed for smaller drives. The quantum was about 3 gig and the bios saw it correctly afterwards. I don't know that I'd recommend it for an 80 gig.
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Hey everyone!!
I fixed it, quite simple in fact. I used Seagate's DiskWizard to set the size, my brother changed it. So thats why the DiskWizard installed DDO automatically. To donwload DiskWizard, follow thi link:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.htmlYou can use either the ISO file or the floppy install.
Thanks everyone for helping me out.
NOTE: Its recomended to low-level format your drive before you do this, to aquire the most space.http://rhs08.com
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