120 GB HDD showing 31GB

[Antitrust19]

Ok im installing a new HDD and its 120 GB. I set the jumpers to slave and its reading the drive but when i went to format it, it only showed that capacity of 31 GB. Anyone can help me with this. Thank you.

[sitlet]

how many other hard drives do you have? the only thing i can think of would be to set this one to the master, and make your other hard drive(s) the slaves.

[808smokey]

What OS do you have?

Did you use the software that came with the HD to format the Drive?

[Ripper2860]

Could be this ...

If you are using WinXP to partition/format the new drive as FAT32 -- 32GB is the max partition size. It's not a FAT32 limit -- it's a XP implimentation of FAT32 issue.

You need to use a Win98 emergency boot disk or other utility such as Ranish Partition Manager (free) to create the partition and format the drive w/ FAT32 if you want to use the whole drive w/FAT32. You cannot create and format the partition w/ XP.

Here is the Ranish util: http://www.ranish.com/part/

Also -- you could create an NTFS partition and use NTFS file system w/ XP and use the full disk capacity.

Hope this helps !!

[808smokey]

Could be this ...

If you are using WinXP to partition/format the new drive as FAT32 -- 32GB is the max partition size. It's not a FAT32 limit -- it's a XP implimentation of FAT32 issue.

You need to use a Win98 emergency boot disk or other utility such as Ranish Partition Manager (free) to create the partition and format the drive w/ FAT32 if you want to use the whole drive w/FAT32. Yuo cannot create and format the partition w/ XP.

Here it is Ranish util: http://www.ranish.com/part/

Also -- you could create an NTFS partition and use NTFS file system w/ XP and use the full capacity.

Hope this helps !!

LOL good point ripper I completly forgot about that 32G limit with XP. That's probably the problem they're having

[neo4u]

I just had exactly the same problem and went through every solution i could think of including flashing my bios.

Then the penny finaly dropped and i tried just changing the jumpers on my hard drives(which are on the same ide channel) to cable select instead of master and slave and windows recognised it perfectly.

Hope this works for you too