JTM Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 I have a 70gb hard drive in my pcJust installed a 200gb samsung drive. Putting the jump lead o it to SL for slaveIn bios its come up on its own as primary slave? Is this correct or should I have it as secondary primary? Problem is, it shows up in device manager as working fine but its not in my computer etc so i cant use it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 You have 2 ide sockets on your motherboard. One will be listed as primary and the other secondary. Each slot then has a cable with 2 devices on.So if both hard drives are on one ide cable and its ide socket 1 they will bePrimary MasterPrimary SlaveIn other words yes thats fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted July 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 (edited) Right the wide thin (assuming its IDE?) cable is one cable which splits into 2, one into each HD. so any ideas why its not wokring??? Edited July 11, 2006 by JTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 sometimes you need to format it for it to show up in 'my computer' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted July 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 That would make sense, as I havent done yet. How would I go about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 As long as its showing up in the bios it sounds like it just needs formatting in windows. To do that do the following.Right Click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk ManagementThen make a new NTFS partion on the unallocated space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted July 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 How do I do that???Surely If I right click the black line for Un-allocated space and create a partition, i will just be in the remainder of that drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Hummm it should read a lot more than 31.49Gb. DOUBLE check theres not a jumper on the drive limiting its capacity.http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDr...ersguide_02.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 i have an 80gb slave hdd that has only ever shown up as 30gb. i've tried re-formatting it and stuff but it never changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Old computers had the problem of drives only being supported upto 31.49Gb but as you already have an 80Gb hard disk installed that cant be the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 yeh that'll be it as i first installed it on some old motherboard from the stoneage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 (edited) they will never be quite what they say on them, for instance i was working with an 80gb harddrive today, trying to connect up a 2tb storage centre, thats 2000gb, so 4 500gb in two compartment thingys (can remember the names, they were all from netgear.co.uk so whatever). anyways it is never quite 80gb, this one was around 75 for some reason. but 30gb is absurd for an 80gb harddrive.the thing im trying to install is a netgear sc101 if anyone cares lol. Edited July 12, 2006 by ash-kennard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted July 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 All sorted I had the jump lead on when I wasnt meant to, by doing so i restricted the drive to 32gb?! God knows why you would ever want that but oh well, thanks people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme_biker0 Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 To make the hdd compatible with older bios's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Cable Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 they will never be quite what they say on them, for instance i was working with an 80gb harddrive today, trying to connect up a 2tb storage centre, thats 2000gb, so 4 500gb in two compartment thingys (can remember the names, they were all from netgear.co.uk so whatever). anyways it is never quite 80gb, this one was around 75 for some reason. but 30gb is absurd for an 80gb harddrive.the thing im trying to install is a netgear sc101 if anyone cares lol.Yea it does that for the file system. I think, bitch slap me if im wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Drives never show up in windows as as big as the manufacturers claim them to be. Drive manufactuers count one megabyte as 1000kb, whereas windows counts one megabyte as 1024kb. Thats the reason..As for JTM, there should be some software around the samsung website that fixes the problem, it'll probably be in the FAQs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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