On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 22:20 +0100, Eron Smith wrote: > Can someone tell me why my 1Tb HDD drive is only showing up as a 32mb > HDD?
it's a firmware (or jumper ?) setting on the drive I think that gets corrupted > When I plug them into the RAID sockets, the new 1Tb HDD shows as 1Tb & > the old 1Tb drive (which previously showed as 1Tb) shows as 32Mb. The > 2 x 500Gb drive show correctly. When I plug the drives into an > ordinary socket it shows as 7.56Gb only. This too is true if is the > only drive plugged in. It used to show as 1Tb and it also shows as > 32Mb in the BIOS. a clue about the drive make / type may help :-) Samsung's ES tool http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/downloads/support_in_es.html allows you to see the native size and current size, and make changes. some steps here under "second problem" : http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1069572&p=-1#bottom other search terms that may help are "uncut" and MHDD from the Ultimate Boot CD. There's a windows tool at http://hddguru.com/software/2007.07.20-HDD-Capacity-Restore-Tool/ Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
