320GB HD seen as 7.87GB removable drive? eh

[Metier9]

Basically what the title says, my lovely still rather new HD from scan, 320GB samsung. I turned on my computer to see only 2 physical hds... then a couple of seconds later my third hd appears as 7.87Gb and removeable, it should be a 320Gb samsung. It was working before, but sometimes BIOS would no report it properly, Any ideas? I couldnt test anything as i had to come to work.

[staffsMike]

never seen that before..is it in a bog standard sata port or a raid port?

is the mobo sata 1 or 2 ...is the HD sata 1 or 2 lol.

no idea really

[Steve B]

try start>run>diskmgmt.msc and check what its like in the disk manager

[Metier9]

never seen that before..is it in a bog standard sata port or a raid port?

is the mobo sata 1 or 2 ...is the HD sata 1 or 2 lol.

no idea really

SATA 2 on both

non raided

try start>run>diskmgmt.msc and check what its like in the disk manager

I will check that when i get home. Will try that ultimate ISO aswell for the samsung drive tools.

The drive 'was' in working order.


O by the way i have 2 * 320GB samsung drives and the other one is ok.

[Metier9]

I think i have an idea, can someone say "yah or nah"

I assigned the letter drive of F: to this sata device. Now windows automatically sets F: as the removeable disc drive (had this problem with a dell at work with a network drive and card reader). Now it reports as 7.87GB, which i could say is 8GB, now is the limit for the 2003 8 GB for a flash device? So thats why its says its only 7.87GB? If i change the drive letter in disk management, all should be fine?

[aidanjt]

The limit is only with FAT16, but I assume you used NTFS.

Could be a dodgy disk, or maybe a controller.

[Metier9]

The limit is only with FAT16, but I assume you used NTFS.

Could be a dodgy disk, or maybe a controller.

Yer i used NTFS

I hope its not the disk or the controller :S... that means that nearly every order ive made with scan (4 orders) has had parts with faults... :S

[Biscuit]

Easiest thing to do is run the samsung bootable hdd software and run a scan. That will tell you if its b*ggered or not & obv if that works fine then its something to do with windows

[Metier9]

Yer... i know.. got 2hrs and 15 mins till im home...

o when its 7.87Gb it asks me to format *shrugs* maybe it thinks its FAT 16 by default...

yer im know im pissing in the wind with all these ideas but keeps me busy

[Metier9]

Just got home and *waits to make tension*... Fixed and didnt loose single piece of bit torrent heaven . Although it did mess up my shares and utorrent destionation folders.

Got home, checked disk manager, went to f:, changed it to Z:, restarted server, back to disk manager, made partition active (it lost drive letter etc.. after restart), made it Z: and wooo all my files are still there.

morale of the story... dont make anything as the F: drive

inserting linux response...

Linux doesnt have drive letters and the file system is not b0rked

^ hows my attempt aidanjt and directhex ... its all good really . If you two pop up in hows your projects going?