Hard Drive only showing half GB

Hello everyone. I recently purchased a few Point of Sale terminals off of ebay without operating system.

Both hard drives are Seagate 80gb. Normal ST380215A and a certified repaired ST380215A.

However, within bios, disk management, seatools, Acronis, MiniTool partition home, they all show up as 40gb.

Shouldn't they be showing up as higher 70's instead of 37-40gb? Where did all of that space go?

Am I just being paranoid thinking the people that sold it have a hidden partition somewhere that I can't see? These terminals will be using credit cards so I can't take that chance. Before I go out and buy new HDD, let me know if I am missing something.

Thanks everyone.

 

I would pull them and look at the jumpers. Also you can use something like the Ubuntu LiveCD and look at the S.M.A.R.T. info. What happens if you pull the drives and place them in a external enclosure and plug that into a computer? What do they show up as for space wise?

Also see http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/crawl_message?board.id=ata_drives&message.id=25252 Also download and use Seatools http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

 

Download Treesize: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

It will show all info on the drives.

 

Treesize is not going to solve the issue. PSC02007, the problem is not with something eating up space, it is with the system not reporting the proper sized encoded on the bios chip on the circuit board on the drive. Look at the first link I posted, that explains how the OP has to correct their issue.

 

Thank you for the help brownizs. I ended up posting on the seagate forums as well and one of the hard drive gurus helped me out. Apparently it was a Host Protected Area issue with the hard drives. I didn't even know that they could do that but I suppose it can be used for good or evil.

Here is the response I got from seagate:




The drives' capacities may have been cut with a Host Protected Area (HPA). You may be able to restore the full native capacity with one of the following tools.

HDD Capacity Restore Tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2007.07.20-HDD-Capacity-Restore-Tool

HDAT2/CBL Hard Disk Repair Utility:
http://www.hdat2.com
http://www.hdat2.com/hdat2_faq.html
http://www.hdat2.com/files/cookbook_v11.pdf

SeaTools for DOS:
http://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/seatools/
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/seatools/user guides/SeaToolsDOSguide.EN.pdf

Explanation of Host Protected Area:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area