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> Harddisk Problem, i got 2 and 1 isn't working
wassie
post Nov 5 2005, 09:20 PM
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here is the problem:

i got 2 harddisks. 1 is olmost full, so i wanted to copie somethings in my second harddisk (wich i never used before) But when i cross the (About) 6 gigabyte... the disk says that its full... but it can hold 93 gig. And i checked the particle thingy... and cleaned the disk... nothing works...

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post Nov 5 2005, 11:13 PM
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Hummm without knowing how you set your computer up it's bit hard to tell. But looks like Windows 98 issue to me. If your physical hard drive can hold 100GB but you formatted your drive using Windows format command, probably it formatted to only 6GB maximum.

If this is the case, you should FDISK 6GB at a time until you run out of the space. In which case you'll have about 17 drives letters laugh.gif

But could you tell us more about your system settings (what OS, how you installed, how many physical drives, what software used to format etc)
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post Nov 6 2005, 01:29 AM
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You may need to get a "Nuke Disk" to wipe every file off the 2nd one, as windows may have told it to be 6Gb if you see what i mean...
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post Nov 6 2005, 04:36 AM
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you old is the computer or the BIOS? 6.4GB is a limit to old file systems...
is the free space detected correctly? you say 93 GB, where do you see that?
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post Nov 6 2005, 06:34 AM
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have you checked to see if windows thinks that you have a 100gig hdd fitted.
go on my computer and look at the total size of the hdd .... is it what you think it should be ???
if not .... go into your bios and see if your bios is reporting back the hdd that you think it should be.
if it is not .... it might be that if its an old motherboard you will have to flash the bios to enable it to see hdd greater than 8.4gig.
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post Nov 6 2005, 01:26 PM
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i allready found the problem, a friend helped me with it.
my primary harddisk was a "Nfts" that is a harddisk type from windows 2000/xp/ect. but my other was a FAT32
and that "FAT32" was from back in the days of DOS, so you coudn't transfer more then 4 gig. But i converted it to a NFTS, so no problem smile.gif
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post Nov 15 2005, 03:38 AM
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I think you dont set your jumper ( black of hard)
send one hard to Master slave
and another to secend slave
if you have writer or cd rom you must user another port on your mainboard
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post Apr 19 2006, 07:54 AM
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QUOTE(alexia @ Nov 14 2005, 11:38 PM) *

I think you dont set your jumper ( black of hard)
send one hard to Master slave
and another to secend slave
if you have writer or cd rom you must user another port on your mainboard


How do people post like this and stay active?!? You need to be more specific in your answers to people that are not as tech savvy as yourself. The jumpers that are being talked about are on the back of your hard drive, and normally there are three settings. The first is Master, the second is as Slave, and the third is as a (CS) Cable select, which means whichever cable is physically tied to that drive(By means of a physical turn of the cable.) And also, there are normally two interfaces for your drives, which are refered to as "IDE" or "EIDE" connectors. You have a primary (1), and a secondary (2), controller, normally found on your motherboard. If you set a jumper as a "Master" on your IDE "Primary", #1 controller, you would have to set up your secondary hard drive or CD-Rom as a "Secondary" on the same "Primary" line. Hope you understand what I am trying to teach you! If you need help, I would gladly asssist you! rolleyes.gif

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post Apr 20 2006, 05:50 AM
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Another is that your disk could be partitioned, to check, go to administrative tools, computer management, and then to storage. the second disk should be completely "blue" if it is not and says unallocated, then the hard drive is partitioned. If it is partitioned, backup the data on your second hard drive, then delete the partition in the computermanagement -disk tool and create one to fill up the 100GB hard drive.