Master/Slave -- Slave Capacity not Recognized

xratedsoldier · Oct 26, 2008

I am stuck in a rutt and I need some help out. Please Help...

What I am working with:

1 Western Digital HD (WD Caviar) 40 G
1 Samsung SP1203N 120 G
Foxconn MB -- S650 344xp526 10904
Bios -- Award Bios/ 01/09/2004 - SiS 650 6A6IXFK9C-00

What I am trying to do:

Master Western Digital HD
Slave Samsung

What I have done:

Verified jumpers on HD's are correct
Verified wiring correct
Deleted partition on Disk Managment
Set partition
Format with Win XP disk (didn't install on slave)

What is wrong:

I can only see part of the disk capacity on the slave drive. It shows in BIOS and Disk Manager as 32 G...supposed to be 120 G. I have deleted the partition and redone it...

Any suggestions?

plodr · Oct 26, 2008

If your computer uses drive overlay software for large hard disk support, do not use the Windows XP Setup program to partition or to format the drive until you have verified Windows XP compatibility with the software manufacturer. If you do not know whether you have drive overlay software installed, contact the software manufacturer before you continue.
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Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348&Product=winxp

sach2 · Oct 26, 2008

How do you have your jumpers set on the slave drive? That drive has a 32gb limit configuration that could be messing you up but a quick read of the manuals is confusing. Try putting no jumper on the slave drive and see if that works.

There are several versions of manuals at this link that have different configurations for the jumpers (????) even though it is the same drive. Samsung

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Master/Slave -- Slave Capacity not Recognized

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