[paulygavin]

Andy 3536 I managed to fix my problem.... Here is what i did... give it a try,

As mentioned the samsung 1TB was showing as 32MB on my Gigabyte motherboard BIOS and 7.87 through windows XP.

First go into the BIOS and change the SATA controller option to 'LEGACY IDE'.

Then go into the Hard Drive screen of your BIOS and check that the HD which boots the OS is on a seperate channel to the Samsung drive. And check that the Samsung drive is the master on its channel, and there is no slave present on that channel.

Load up windows XP and download and install the HD CAPACITY RESTORE tool mentioned earlier in the post.

Then make sure you download and install WINDOWS SERVICE PACK 3 (you must have service packs 1 and two installed already)

Shut down windows and power off. Give it 20-30 seconds and reboot.

Go into control panel, performance & maintanance, system (if in classic view just go to system), hardware tab, device manager, then open up the disk drives tab and select UNINSTAL on the Samsung drive.

Open the HD CAPACITY TOOL and select the Samsung Drive (it will not let you use it if you havent put it on a seperate channel as i specified earlier). It should say that it is a 1000GB capacity and ask if you want to restore it. Select YES. It will then tell you to it needs to reboot the PC.

As the PC reboots go into the BIOS and your drive should now be recognised by the motherboard as 1000GB capacity.

If so, load windows and you can now quick format the Samsung to give it a 7.87 capacity.

Click START and then right click on my computer and go to MANAGE. Click on DISK MANAGEMENT near bottom and it will bring up your drives. Click on the Samsung drive and select delete partition. Once the partition is deleted click on it again and create a partition. It will now give you the option to make the partition for 931GB.

Et voila...... 931 glorious GB of hard drive space showing in my computer!

I hope this is of help to some people, let me know if you have any joy... the deal on the Samsung 1TB is so good that it would be a shame for people to return it as faulty when it can be fixed.